ALTON, Ill. — Alton residents say they're fed up with the violence in their community after shots were fired at a school bus stop along Central Ave. Wednesday night. “My son was leaving out of the ...

Local musician Aaron Kyles speaks at the anti-gun violence rally Thursday, March 6, 2025, on Central Avenue. Alton NAACP President Leon Smallwood-Bey addresses the crowd of about 40 people at the anti ...

ALTON, Ill. — Two people have been charged in the attempted shooting of a night school student who was getting off a school bus Wednesday night. Daniel G. Coalan, 18, and a 16-year-old were charged ...

ALTON — Two suspects, an 18-year-old Alton resident and a 16-year-old Wood River juvenile, were charged Monday in the Feb. 26 shooting at an Alton School bus in the 1200 block of Central Avenue in ...

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ALTON — A man who said his son narrowly escaped being shot Wednesday night when one or more people opened fire on a student exiting an Alton school bus said the incident was the latest in an ongoing ...

ALTON, Ill. – Jacqueline Anderson nervously waited for her second grader to come home from school Wednesday. “He didn’t even really want to get on the bus this morning because he was like, ‘What if ...