Chris Rhodes is a photographer and reporter for RiverBender and EdGlenToday.com. He is a graduate of Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL with a degree in Criminal Justice. He also runs the Madison County Scanner Page.
Chris loves camping,fishing, and photography. Chris is an Eagle Scout and lives in East Alton.
TRIAD 47, JERSEY 28: Triad came back from a first quarter tie to take the lead in the second, then pulled away in the second half in picking up the Mississippi Valley Conference win at Havens Gym. The two sides were tied 7-7 after one quarter, but the Knights took an 18-14 halftime lead, extended...
COTTAGE HILLS - Multiple Madison County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a 911 call on Rose Avenue in Cottage Hills Thursday morning after a call about an unresponsive infant. Madison County Sheriff's Office Capt. Will Dimitroff said the sheriff's office is investigating the death of the "unresponsive...
ALTON - A man was arrested at the Illinois 143 right before the Illinois Route 3 on Thursday morning. Alton Police Department stopped a vehicle at that location. Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido said a person was pulled over in a vehicle then detained "in regard to a vehicle being driven with stolen...
ALTON - On Thursday, February 25 th , 2021, in the morning hours, the Alton Police Department, with the assistance of the ILEAS Special Response Team, executed a drug-related search warrant at a house in the 300 block of Dry St. in Alton. This drug-related search warrant was a result of our...
ALTON - Alton city officials announced today a media event set for 3 p.m. Friday, February 26, 2021, to release information of a new semi-professional football team that will make the new Gordon Moore Park turf fields home this spring. The Gordon Moore Park/1st Mid-America Soccer Complex announcement...
EDWARDSVILLE - Holiday Shores Fire Department along with Prairietown Fire Department responded to a serious traffic crash at IL-140 and IL-159 Thursday morning. Fire officials said a semi-truck struck the back of one SUV and pushed it into the other SUV. When firefighters arrived they had...
ROXANA - Roxana's girls basketball squad met a strong Pana team Wednesday night at Roxana and the Panthers emerged with a 63-15 triumph. Multi-sports star Macie Lucas was Shells' top scorer with 6 points and Olivia Mouser had 3 points. The Panthers led all four quarters. Pana led 19-3 after...
ALTON - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydraulic Engineer Russell Errett, who works in the Water Management Office, said today, broken ice on the Mississippi River doesn’t automatically correlate to waters that result in flood stages. Errett acknowledged he had not witnessed ice that formed...
GLEN CARBON - Quick reaction of Glen Carbon Protection District members rescued a man and a 60-pound black poodle from icy water behind 98 Lakewood Drive in Glen Carbon at 4:38 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22. While fire units responded, they were updated that two subjects had got onto the ice in an...
BETHALTO - On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, the Bethalto Police Department responded to a theft complaint at Rose Lawn Cemetery. Bethalto officers learned that an unknown suspect(s) entered the grounds during the overnight hours and stole approximately 80 small copper memorial vases off burial...
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