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ALTON — Paul Wallace wasn't focused on giving his wife chocolates or flowers on Valentine's Day. Instead, the southwestern Illinois man gave her best friend a kidney.

ALTON - Collectors and people interested in Alton's history can buy T-shirts, lapel pins and decals, with more merchandise coming this year to commemorate the city's 175th anniversary."As we get out of eagle season, we will ramp it up in terms of merchandising," said Suzanne...

ALTON, Ill. (AP) -- On Valentine's Day, Paul Wallace wasn't focused on giving his wife chocolates or flowers. The southwestern Illinois man gave her best friend a kidney instead.

ALTON - School board members voted 6-0 Tuesday morning to reassign the Alton High School athletic director to a business teaching post, less than a month after firing the school's football coach.The vote to "reclassify," four-year athletic director Scott...

  ALTON, Ill. (AP) -- On Valentine's Day, Paul Wallace wasn't focused on giving his wife chocolates or flowers. The southwestern Illinois man gave her best friend a kidney instead.  

ST. CHARLES • The non-conference game between Alton (Ill.) Marquette and host Orchard Farm was a game of adjustments.

TROY, Ill. • At the midway point, the Alton-Triad wrestling dual Wednesday night was up for grabs.

Mid-winter results lacked any big rises or declines in revenue.

GODFREY - In its fourth year, Alton High School's Wall of Fame will get four more honorees Friday, bringing the total to 20 honored alumni or other exemplary contributors to the school.Recipients, one posthumous, include a retired, decorated U.S. Air Force colonel who was a prisoner of war...