*If you click on a link in this story we will earn affiliate revenue. SOMETIMES, one day at a theme park just isn’t enough. So Alton Towers is offering a second ticket free this summer – and there are ...

Alton Brown recently opened up about the one snack he says transports him back to childhood. The “Good Eats” star recently appeared on an episode of Mythical Kitchen’s “Last Meals,” a podcast in which ...

The old Douglass School, targeted for demolition by city officials, figured in one of the uglier chapters of Alton history. The school was one of two built to segregate black and white students in ...

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Philippe Petit remembers it like it was yesterday. On Aug. 7, 1974, he made an illegal high-wire walk 1,350 feet above the ground between the Twin Towers. The French high-wire artist will look back on ...

A federal judge on Wednesday, June 24, ordered the Kennedy Center to explain a tarp and scaffolding covering its front entrance. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper also ordered the center to ...

AP — The deadly destruction of a Florida beachfront condominium actually started weeks before it collapsed into a pile of rubble in the middle of the night, killing 98 people in 2021, but the building ...

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EDWARDSVILLE — An East Alton man was charged with aggravated battery after allegedly attacking two security officers. The 43-year-old suspect was charged July 1 with two counts of aggravated battery, ...

Communities across the Riverbend and Metro East are preparing for Independence Day celebrations, featuring fireworks displays, family festivals, live music, food vendors, and patriotic events from ...

England's hopes of winning a second major title 60 years after their first at FIFA World Cup 2026 ended with a 2-1 defeat by Argentina in the semi-finals. Thomas Tuchel's side, led by captain Harry ...

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...