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.
ROSEWOOD HEIGHTS - Rosewood Heights and other area fire departments responded quickly to a serious fire in the 400 block of California in the community early Friday morning and two at home were quickly transported to the hospital. The mutual aid fire call came in around 12:20 a.m. Friday....
EAST ALTON - Investigations conducted by the East Alton Police Department resulted in the apprehension and an array of subsequent charges of two individuals - James L. Futia of 500 block of Broadway, East Alton, 21, and his father, James L. Futia, 41, of the same address in East Alton....
EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville soccer player Emma Sitton has officially signed with the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Emma recently scored a game-winning goal for the Tigers over O'Fallon and is a strong offensive player. "I received a lot of help from my club coach at UMSL," Sitton said. She...
GRANITE CITY - An extremely intense warehouse fire in the 3300 block of Illinois Route 162 in Granite City required multiple agencies to battle, but in the end, the cooperation of all the departments enabled firefighters to remain safe and the blaze extinguished. The warehouse stored an abundance...
SEE GAME VIDEO: ALTON - For the young Marquette Catholic girls soccer Explorers, the signs of potential can be seen on the horizon. However, the team has opened with some extremely difficult competition and is still searching for victories. Marquette shutout the Quincy Notre Dame Raiders...
SOUTH ROXANA - The South Roxana Fire Department was dispatched for a serious structure fire at 4 a.m early Wednesday on Sinclair Avenue. The South Roxana Fire Department called for mutual aid to battle the blaze. Multiple area fire departments responded to the scene. When firefighters arrived...
ROXANA – The Marquette Catholic softball team pushed across three runs in the eighth inning as the Explorers defeated Roxana 5-2 in a game played Tuesday afternoon at Roxana Community Park. Jada Johnson started the inning with a double to right, then scored on Kyra Green’s RBI single....
GRANITE CITY - A warehouse in the 3300 block of Route 162 Granite City erupted into a massive blaze late Tuesday morning. Fire departments present are Granite City Fire Department, also Long Lake Fire Department, Mitchell Fire Department, Troy Fire Department, Camp Jackson Fire Department, and...
SEE VIDEO: ALTON – Omar Abdi of St. Louis and Carolyn O’Leary of St. Peters, Mo., were the overall winners in the ninth annual Alton Half-Marathon Run, held on Saturday morning in the streets of Downtown Alton. Abdi won the race with a time of 1:15:51, 51 seconds ahead o...
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