LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced the signing of a new long-term oxygen and nitrogen supply agreement, and that it will build a new air separation unit (ASU) and refurbish its existing ASU and liquefier at its facility in Granite City, Illinois.

New Cell Site Means Clearer Reception, Fewer Dropped Calls GRANITE CITY, Ill., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless, the wireless company with the highest customer loyalty, has activated a new cell site in Granite City, Ill., which will enable more customers to use their wireless phones concurrently to make calls; send and receive email and text, picture and video messages; access the Internet; view high-quality videos; and download music, games and ringtones, while enjoying clearer reception and fewer dropped calls. The new cell site, located near the intersection of Madison Avenue and Nameoki Road in Granite City, improves coverage in the area bounded by Pontoon Road in the north, East 23rd Street in the south, Maryville Road in the east and Missouri Ave.

By George Pawlaczyk, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. Jul. 2--GRANITE CITY -- After police said he beat eight people to death and led them on a multi-state manhunt, Nicholas T. Sheley's arrest came quietly Tuesday night because he wanted a smoke. Sheley was arrested about 7 p.m.

By Christine Byersand Nicholas J.C. Pistor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul. 2--Nicholas Sheley walked into Bindy's Bar in Granite City shortly after 6 p.m.

By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill. May 19--GRANITE CITY -- Mayor Ed Hagnauer wants to shake "the stigma.""Dirty little steel town," said the life-long resident. "That's the kind of stigma we've always lived with, and nobody has really aggressively gone out and tried to change that.