Martha Elizabeth Smith, age 101, passed peacefully surrounded by the love of her family, leaving behind a legacy built of hard work, laughter, devotion, and deep-rooted kindness. Born on November 30, ...

After Molly Burkett’s death at 93, her daughter Sophie recalls a home that became one of Britain’s longest-running wildlife sanctuaries ...

Man dead after early-morning shooting at Alton Housing Complex; one in custody ...

Teen charged with first-degree murder in fatal Oakwood Estates shooting; victim identified ...

Aunt Eileen needed livestock feed, so she drove into Bucyrus but stopped at my folks’ house on Mary St., as she had no driver’s license and didn’t like to drive in town without one. My Mom had called ...

Alton Bruce Chrystal passed away peacefully on Feb. 2, 2026, after a long life of love, service, and adventure. He passed just short of his 100th birthday. His loved ones feel blessed to have had so ...

On Thursday, January 22, 2026, William (Bill) Thomas Mahar, Jr., 62, longtime resident of Milford, NH, and business owner of GTA Auto, succumbed to the cancer that had sidelined him for many months.

Two Alton filmmakers are preparing their Riverbend home for the big screen. This June, cousins Roger and Jeff Lewis will start filming “Herbert West: Reanimator," a film based on a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft ...

Alton J. (Bub) Phillips, 84, of Jamestown passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026 in Warren Manor Nursing Home surrounded by his loved ones. A lifelong area resident he was born Oct. 9, ...

Professor Jack Scarisbrick, who has died aged 97, was known to generations of history students as the author of the classic account of the life of Henry VIII, and to a wider public as the founder and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Sample: his Tom Sharpe covers were ‘half Giles, half Beryl Cook, full of purple-faced men in tweeds and buxom women popping ...