Cahokia News

A. Courtney Cox, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 8, 2010, BRANDON MCNEESE, age 24, of Cahokia, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St.

A southwestern Illinois village says five police department workers and six workers in either the parks or streets departments are among 18 full-time workers laid off because of a budget crunch.

Poisonous politics and a bad economy add up to huge layoffs in the town of Cahokia, Illinois.

Furloughs and layoffs are coming to every department in the City of Cahokia. Mayor Frank Bergman tells NewsChannel 5 the cost-cutting measures will save the city approximately $30,000 a week in payroll.

Jarrion Norris carried a heavy load Wednesday for the Cahokia Comanches -- and the Mater Dei Knights felt the full impact.

Junior Sarah Luongo and Steven Broderick, Class of 2009, work on excavations overlying a copper workshop found in Cahokia Mounds.

Many don't, she says a ' even people she has known for a long time. You'll be so captivated by the artwork this Belleville woman does with her hands you won't see that one of those hands is missing four fingers.

Officials with the Mississippi River Bridge project say work in the river will begin in about a week.

There are ancient mysteries all over the world that have perplexed scientists, historians and archaeologists for ages: Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Nazca Lines among them.

It took a St. Clair County Coroner's jury less than ten minutes Wednesday to decide a young man's death outside the City Nights bar in East St.

An investigator says the fatal crash of a small plane in southwestern Illinois occurred while the pilot was trying for a second time to land at an airport in rain and fog.

Federal investigators launch an investigation into Sunday night's horrific plane crash that destroyed a house and killed two near Belleville, Illinois.

Federal aviation officials are trying to figure out what caused a small plane to slam into a house and hangar in a southwestern Illinois subdivision built for aviation enthusiasts.

CAHOKIA a ' Political strife in Cahokia dates to at least 1769, when Ottawa Indian chief Pontiac's skull was crushed with a war club in what may have been an intertribal dispute.

Fire officials say a small plane has crashed into a house and adjacent hangar. Two people aboard the plane are missing.

News 4 crews are on the scene of a plane crash at a home in Belleville, Illinois.

Archaeology professors have discovered in Illinois what they said appears to be a coppersmiths' workshop from the American Stone Age.

About 800 years ago, in a large room lit by a wood fire, fierce-looking men bedecked in bright feathers and polished copper ornaments gathered to smoke and talk.Their intricate jewelry -- fanciful objects hammered from chunks of naturally occurring raw copper -- reflected the firelight.

I wonder if anyone on President Obama's new Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage felt a slight rumble of concern when a 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck across Kane County in Illinois on Wednesday.

Guests staying at the Trails End Motel in Cahokia, Illinois, were forced out of their beds Wednesday night because of a fire that started around 10:30pm at the motel at 600 Water Street and Route 3. When firefighters arrived, flames were shooting from the roof.