East St. Louis News

Summary: Former East St. Louis track star Dawn Harper won the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the Summer Olympics in Beijing Tuesday, August 19.

East St. Louis -- A 27-year-old Cahokia man was sentenced to 50 years in prison in federal court in connection with kidnapping a Dupo man in 2006 and holding him in the trunk of his car for four days.

Police are searching for a suspect after an elderly Alorton, Illinois man is found shot to death in his home.

Police responded to two shootings within minutes of each other early Friday, but they didn't catch anyone and the victims' injuries were not life threatening.

No one has stepped forward with the information the Major Case Squad of Greater St.

A coroner's jury learned just how an East St. Louis woman and her four-year-cousin were killed after they went missing for almost a year and a half.

O'Fallon's Delores Moye Elementary School was named the Illinois Do The Right Thing program's School of the Year for the 2007-08 school year, while East St.

A Madison County coroner's jury has ruled the deaths of a 19-year-old East St. Louis woman, her 4-year-old cousin and her 7-month-old fetus a homicide.

Two days of terror. Black men tortured and hanged. A baby dead of exposure. Four white rioters shot by black defenders.

Police have identified a body found near an East St. Louis church as that of a 37-year-old man from St.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Funeral arrangements are pending for a 37-year-old Missouri man whose body was found over the weekend near an East St.

Two East St. Louis men were charged Sunday with shooting and robbing an elderly East St.

Ordinance Restricting Distribution of Pro-Life Handbills Found Unconstitutional CHICAGO, Ill.

A church member cleaning the grounds at an East St. Louis church discovered a body this afternoon, according to Police Chief Michael Baxton Sr.

Two days of terror. Black men tortured and lynched. A baby dead of exposure. Four white rioters shot by black defenders.

Since Catholic Urban Programs moved to new offices at 7 Vieux Carre Drive, the response has been good.

Prosecutors are pushing for a death sentence for a man accused in the 2005 killings of a pregnant southwest Illinois teenager and her young cousin whose skeletal remains were found in a cistern on land the ...

A man has been arrested in connection with the robbery Tuesday of the Circle K gas station in Belleville.

A judge in St. Louis has sentenced a man to 21 months in prison and restitution for his role in moving $50,000 worth of stolen cars from Missouri to Illinois to be sold for scrap metal.

A federal judge in East St. Louis says an Air Force veteran from the Metro East must spend 10 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. government of benefits.