The Waterloo High School football squad traveled to Taylorville for a first-round IHSA Class 4A playoff contest Friday night, ...

Linda Jean Preece (nee Lege) was born on Oct. 30, 1946, at Santa Rosa Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, and baptized at ...

Ellen J. Marshall (nee O’Connell), 83, of Waterloo, died Oct. 20, 2026, in Red Bud. She was born Feb. 1, 1943, in Waterloo.

Dennis G. “Doc” Wetzler, 83, of Mascoutah, born Oct. 7, 1943, in Monroe County, died Oct. 21, 2026, at La Bella of Freeburg.

Emergency personnel responded shortly after 8:30 a.m. Friday to a multi-vehicle crash with possible injuries on Route 3 northbound just south of North Main Street in Columbia. One lane ...

Two individuals from Macoupin County arrested this week in Monroe County on drug and gun charges are also believed to be ...

Monroe County has prided itself on cross country success in recent years, and that tradition continued Saturday at the ...

A local man took a trip out west this time last year, chiefly making a jaunt up Pike’s Peak in Colorado to enjoy the sites ...

A woman who survived a jump off the Jefferson Barracks Bridge on I-255 into the Mississippi River in early June made a ...

Although Moore Cemetery in Waterloo is among the smaller collection of graves in Monroe County, it may be one of the most ...

Aurora University freshman Avery Arendell, a recent Columbia High School graduate, was recently named Northern Athletics ...

As Election Day is just around the corner and early voting is well underway, the Monroe County Clerk’s office has been busy ...