East St. Louis News

Things could have ended up much differently for 18-year-old Curtis Warner. A year ago he was staring down at time behind bars.

One in five children in Illinois live in poverty, according to Illinois Kids Count 2012 data released Thursday by the organization Voices for Illinois Children.

The daughter of a man who was fatally shot Wednesday outside his home and her boyfriend have been charged with first-degree murder.

East St. Louis, IL - The future of children in Illinois could be in trouble, according to the Illinois Kids Count 2012 report released on Thursday.

A southwestern Illinois man faces federal charges accusing him of supplying heroin that killed another man last summer.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A one-time killer from Oklahoma has been ordered to spend nearly a quarter century in federal prison for abducting two women from a southwestern Illinois loan store during a failed check-cashing scheme.

Louis nightclub after claiming to have suffered injuries during a no-holds-barred melee made infamous last April after video footage emerged and circulated across YouTube.

Police in East St. Louis are investigating after a 38-year-old man was found shot to death early Wednesday morning.

The Illinois Gaming Board has released the numbers from the month of January. The new kid on the block, the Des Plaines Casino, continues to tower over the others, as it took in just over 30-point-three million dollars for the first month of the year, However, that total was a drop of nearly eight-point-two percent from the month of December.

Convicted former lawyer Tom Lakin will have to serve an additional year in federal prison on drug charges, apparently because of a conviction in state court on a sex charge.

An Oklahoma man is scheduled to spend 34 years in prison for a multiple-state crime spree that included robbery and kidnapping in O'Fallon. Carey L. Breshers, 52, was sentenced Monday to 293 months of imprisonment on each of two counts of kidnapping and 240 months in prison for interference with commerce by robbery.

R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.

Five people who claim they were attacked and stampeded during a brawl at a rap concert have filed suit against the East St.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - When the Army Corps of Engineers declared last year that the levees here were "unacceptable," it kicked up a storm of protest from officials and residents of the broad Mississippi River flood plain known as the American Bottom .

Parents at a St. Louis city school get a letter informing them a retired teacher working in an after school program has been arrested on sex charges.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Two more men who are among 25 indicted as part of a large cocaine distribution organization were in federal court in East St.

According to the St. Louis Police Department, it happened in the westbound lanes between Branch and Salisbury around 11:00 p.m. Officers say a vehicle hit the median wall, then rolled three times.

Alonzo B. Stuckey, 55, of East St. Louis, was killed early Thursday in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 55-70-64. Stuckey, 55, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:46 a.m. by St.

East St. Louis, IL - A 40-year-old Granite City, Illinois man pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.