An O’Fallon, Mo., man was sentenced Monday to attend a St. Charles County in-custody treatment program.

We wrote earlier about the case of James P. Conley, 29, who was accused of tearing off part of a man’s ear during a fight in…

O’Fallon City Hall will lock its doors to the public for an hour Wednesday afternoon so newly-elected Mayor Bill Hennessy can talk privately with employees about the future of the city.

City Hall will shut down from 3 to 4 p.m.…

Interim Chief Bill Seibert

O’Fallon Interim Police Chief Bill Seibert is pushing for a change in the way the department’s 109 police officers work.

The department currently requires officers work 10-hour shifts, which Seibert says is rare for police departments in the…

James P. Conley

Police say an O’Fallon, Mo., man bit part of another man’s ear off during a fight Sunday.

James P. Conley, 29, of the 2500 block of Breezy Point Lane, was charged Monday with second-degree assault.

Police say Conley came to…

Lowery

O’Fallon City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. is pressing the City Council to publicly release the investigative report of the undisclosed issues that spurred the council to put him on administrative leave earlier this year.

The council on Thursday night voted 6-2 to reject…

O’Fallon City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. is back on the job at City Hall after the City Council backed off its previous decision to put him on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons.

Lowery and council members today had nothing to say…

Let’s start an unscientific poll here. Just for fun.

Now that politics seem to be heating up in O’Fallon as we approach the April election, I ask you, Chas Beat readers, who is most likely to claim the mayor’s chair?

If the…

Vicki Schneider’s comeback campaign for mayor of O’Fallon is already finished.

The former Republican state representative dropped out of the mayoral race Saturday, according to City Clerk Pam Clement. Schneider’s candidacy lasted just nine days. She filed to run Jan. 16.

Schneider

Schneider…

Lowery Jr.

O’Fallon Mayor Donna Morrow says she will oppose any attempt on the City Council to oust City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr. during her final three months in office.

In her first public statements on the rumors swirling around Lowery’s job status, Morrow…

Schneider

Vicki Schneider, who narrowly lost her Missouri House seat in the November election, is wasting no time plotting a political comeback.  Schneider is now running for mayor of O’Fallon.

Schneider, who filed Friday, is the latest of four candidates to register for the…