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.
COLLINSVILLE - Multiple area fire departments responded for a 3-alarm structure fire at Keller Farms in the 400 block of South Bluff Road in Collinsville Sunday night. The fire call came around 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Multiple area fire departments were asked to respond to battle the serious blaze....
BETHALTO - Bethalto Police Department took a couple of scam/fraud reports this week and wanted to warn the public. “I wanted to take a few minutes to pass on some information related to avoiding being the victim of a scam, as it is heartbreaking for me to see people loose their hard-earned...
ALTON - A pedestrian was struck in the east bound lanes of College Avenue in between Stanley Road and Powder Mill Road in Alton around midnight Saturday. Emily Hejna, Alton Police traffic supervisor, said the individual was airlifted to a St. Louis hospital with potentially "life-threatening injuries."...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville Head Boys and Girls Tennis Coach Dave Lipe reported the fence on the high school courts three and four were blown down by the destructive thunderstorm that left damage all over the city on Wednesday. Coach Lipe commended the school maintenance department for quick response...
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville Fire Department, Police and Public Works staff worked non-stop through the night and into the next day Wednesday to Thursday with Ameren Illinois crews to restore normalcy to the City of Edwardsville. The hard work of these organizations, teamed with local tree removal...
ALTON - Ameren Illinois Communications Executive Brian Bretsch described Wednesday night into Thursday a difficult time for line repair workers because of the way the wind storm hit the region. He said because there were smaller pockets of outages because of the wind storm, there were many different...
ALTON - The top of the Hayner-Haskell family tombstone marker at Alton Cemetery that was once 50 feet in the air, broke off at the top and cascaded down to the ground near the bottom marker during Wednesday storm in Alton. Don Huber, a board member for the Alton Cemetery on Fifth Street and former...
ALTON - A power line lodged against the side of a home in the 400 block of E. 11th St. in Alton and started smoldering on Thursday morning. The Alton Fire Department received a 911 call and quickly responded to the scene. Alton Fire Department firefighters were analyzing the situation and waiting...
ALTON REGION - The Alton area was hit hard by strong straight-line winds just after 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday Mark Britt, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in St. Louis, said there were reports of winds close to 60 mph in Granite City and the winds in Alton likely also were in tha...
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