Samantha M. Eaver (nee Layton), 32, of Columbia, died Feb. 16, 2026, in Columbia. She was born Oct. 31, 1993, in Phoenix, Ariz. She is survived by her husband ...

Edward Windsor Gibbs, 81, born Jan. 13, 1945, in East St. Louis to James Kenyon Gibbs and Gladys Irene Gibbs (nee Windsor), died peacefully on Feb. 13, 2026, surrounded ...

Donald L. Eccher, 94 years of Millstadt, passed died Feb. 12, 2026, at Accolade Health Care in Waterloo. He was born April 30, 1931, in Fairmont City. Donald was ...

Emergency personnel responded shortly after 6:30 a.m. Monday to a two-vehicle crash on Route 3 at EE Road near the YMCA just south of Columbia. Fortunately, none of those ...

William ‘Bill’ Allen Heizer, 76, of Waterloo, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Feb. 11, 2026, at his home surrounded by his family. He was ...

The Monroe County Board said this week a lengthy investigation uncovered that the county-owned Oak Hill senior care facility ...

Jenny Hampton Spees, 76, of Columbia, died Feb. 6, 2026. Jenny was born in Killeen, Texas in 1950. She was a 1968 Cahokia ...

Susanne Elizabeth Stenger (nee Muench), 71, of Waterloo, died Feb. 9, 2026, in Waterloo. She was born Sept. 29, 1954, in Red Bud. Susanne was a member of Hope ...

Emergency personnel responded shortly after 2:30 p.m. Thursday to a two-vehicle crash on North Market Street at Bradford Lane next to Schnucks in Waterloo. The vehicles involved were gray ...

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