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.
MARYVILLE - A juvenile bicyclist was struck by a vehicle at the area of southbound State Route 159 and the westbound entrance to Interstate 55/70 at 7:12 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. Maryville Police Department officers responded quickly to the scene. The juvenile victim identified the truck...
GRANITE CITY - Granite City Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the Farm Fresh at 2928 Nameoki Road at 2:40 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. Fire officials say police arrived at the scene and noticed heavy smoke coming from the building and discovered someone broke into the store, and...
ST. LOUIS - A series of field fires near Alhambra/New Douglas, another in a field on Illinois Route 143 near Hamel and along Interstate-64 near Lebanon raised serious concern about the dry rural conditions around the region. The National Weather Service in St. Louis today issued an Elevated...
ALTON - Marquette Catholic junior golfer Gracie Piar had a very successful 2020 season. Piar finished placing second at the IHSA Class 1A sectional at Salem and placed first at the regional last week. Still, with all the problems caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and an uncertain future fo...
WOOD RIVER - Local runners performed well, with many top ten finishes as Collinsville, Roxana, Piasa Southwestern and Marquette Catholic all competed in the East Alton-Wood River Invitational meet held Saturday at EAWR High. In a very unique format, all four classes, from freshmen to senior, compete...
WOOD RIVER - Runners from Collinsville, Roxana, Marquette Catholic and Piasa Southwestern and the host school saw many top ten finishes in the four races of the East Alton-Wood River cross country Invitational meet, held Saturday at EAWR High. In one of the most unique formats in the St. Louis area...
WOOD RIVER - The Wood River Fire Department was dispatched for a garage fire at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on Eighth Street. Wood River called for a Box Alarm to help battle the blaze. East Alton and Roxana Fire Departments responded to the scene. When firefighters arrived heavy fire was showing...
ALTON - Alton Police are working a homicide investigation where a person was shot in the 300 block of State Street in Alton and tragically died, Police Chief Marcos Pulido said Sunday afternoon. The shooting occurred in the early morning Sunday. “This was not a random act of violence,”...
ALTON - The doubles teams of Hannah Colbert and Chloe Trimpe, Chloe Koons and Grace Hackett and Emma Herman and Morgan Marshall swept all three flights of the competition in helping Edwardsville go out to the lead after the first day of the Southwestern Conference girls tennis tournament at Alton...
BETHALTO - Entrepreneur Ross Laux has always had strong customer support of Laux Brickhouse Grille and because of an innovative decision to build an outside open patio building and outside carryout business, he has been able to navigate through the COVID-19 Pandemic and keep many employed. Laux,...
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