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.
ALTON - On Wednesday, the Older Adults Health Council and Senior Services Plus partnered to present the “Don’t play games with your health” Spring Health Fair. The free event was held at 2603 North Rodgers in Alton. The public event was from 8:30 a.m. to noon and had valuable...
ALTON - St. Mary's Catholic Church and School are blessed with an abundance of firefighters/police officers. In the photo above, are some of those people and their children who attend St. Mary's. One of their parishioners, Godfrey Fire Protection District Capt. Jake Ringering, recently died in ...
EDWARDSVILLE - Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons and Edwardsville Mayor Hal Patton shared a deep degree of sadness over the double homicide of Michael and Dr. Lois Ladd because both were personal friends of the family. The two spoke openly at a press conference in Edwardsville late Tuesday...
EDWARDSVILLE - The Major Case Squad has been activated in the City of Edwardsville to what appears to be a double homicide of a couple found in their home at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 18, 2019. The victims were 79-year-old Michael Ladd, a local contractor, and wife, 68-year-Dr. Lois Ladd. The...
PEORIA – The Belleville West boys basketball team capped off a historic day for the Southwestern Conference by winning their second straight IHSA Class 4A championship with a 71-59 win over Evanston at Carver Arena in Peoria. With the win, the Maroons gave the conference its second championship...
PEORIA – Richard Robinson capped off a late 9-2 run with a dunk off of a missed free throw with three seconds left in regulation, then East St. Louis went on a 13-4 run in the second half of the overtime period as the Flyers won the IHSA Class 3A championship Saturday afternoon, defeating...
A pursuit that started in Glen Carbon led to an Illinois State Trooper being shot on Interstate-55 Saturday. The suspect in the pursuit crashed into a median in I-55 in Staunton, then the trooper and suspect both exchanged fire. The male trooper is reported alive and was transported to a hospital....
PEORIA – Keith Randolph, Jr. led the way with 19 points, and E.J. Liddell and Jaylin Mosby had 14 each as defending IHSA Class 4A champion Belleville West advanced to its second consecutive final with a 70-48 win over Chicago Curie in the second semifinal game on Friday night...
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