Chief Executive Officer Jim Allsup said Monday he will consider keeping Allsup Inc.'s expansion -- and the hundreds of jobs it's expected to create -- in Belleville only if Stookey Township relinquishes control of sewers in the area.

Sandy Korte has been issuing drivers and operators state licenses for 14 years. She bought the business in 1994. Since known Sandy's License Service, she recently relocated the operation down the road. She recently talked to business reporter Will Buss about

Uno the beagle won't be the only one from Belleville to make an appearance in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York now that a group of Belleville East High School football cheerleaders have joined the roster.

For a group of Belleville East High School seniors, the Thanksgiving season is about giving others something for which to be thankful.

The city's fourth firehouse -- the first one Belleville has added in 70 years -- will be up and running by Jan. 15, Fire Chief Scott Lanxon said Thursday.

The National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville is going high-tech with its Christmas ministry.

The federal government is assuming risk at a reasonable price with its $700 billion economic stimulus funding, said an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Two metro-east men were arrested and charged for allegedly failing to comply with the state's sex offender registration law.

Jay Harrington eats a lot of peanut butter and crackers in November.

Police on Tuesday identified the body found along U.S. 50 near Rieder Road between O'Fallon and Lebanon Sunday morning, but the cause of death has not been determined.

A man who was shot multiple times Friday afternoon in the 200 block of Freedom Drive has been released from the hospital.

The City Council on Monday approved the mayor's choice for a new alderman and incentives to help the White Cottage ice cream shop reopen in the spring.

Pam Ackermann, an alderman in the city's seventh ward from 1995 to 1999, died Monday at age 57 after a battle with leukemia, said Devin A. Kaemmerer Sr., who was a seventh ward alderman at the same time as Ackermann.

Five years after Lindenwood University opened in the city with a handful of students at the old Belleville West campus, the school's Board of Directors has approved a proposal for daytime classes to start there.

You'd expect Taylor Horace to get a little nervous jumping 3-foot-high fences on a 1,200-pound horse while spectators watch from bleachers.