East St. Louis News Archives

A suspect was arrested Saturday morning after police said he crept in through a window at a housing complex early Saturday and took off with a 5-month-old baby girl.

A Godfrey man on Tuesday admitted underpaying his 2003 income taxes and agreed to pay almost $50,000 in back taxes, the U.S. attorney's office said.

The abandoned Gateway Community Hospital, long tagged as one of the worst eyesores in East St.

Sentencing will be early next year for a southwestern Illinois woman who admits selling drugs to a man who later overdosed on them.

A former Alton police officer who stole money from an evidence vault and lied to investigators has been resentenced to a decade in federal prison.

Louis after diving through a window as authorities closed in to arrest him. Illinois man dies attempting to evade warrant A deputy St.

A $4.3 million southwestern Illinois site where light-rail vehicles used in the St.

A U.S. District Court jury in East St. Louis has found a Marion inmate guilty of possessing marijuana and intent to distribute, said U.S. Attorney A. Courtney Cox.

The parents of a 23-year old man whose body was found Monday on the front porch of an abandoned house in Washington Park said they want an end to the gun violence that is claiming the lives of far too many young black males.

A 30-year-old East St. Louis man died Friday morning after he jumped through a glass window in the rear door of his home to avoid police, who were trying to serve him with a warrant.

The National Park Service has released a management plan for the future of the Gateway Arch grounds.

An East St. Louis teenager is accused of killing a Missouri man found dead last weekend in a motel room in southwestern Illinois.

Commuters between Illinois and Missouri have another option again in crossing the Mississippi River.

Belleville News Democrat An East St. Louis teen was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Missouri man whose body was found in a motel room in ... East St.

A 17-year-old East St. Louis woman has been arrested and charged in connection to a murder in Fairmont City, Illinois.

An abduction from the John DeShields Homes turned out to be a murder on Monday, possibly related to a shooting Monday afternoon at the housing complex and another at Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital.

The mother of a a 4-year-old girl who died in 2006 of a drug overdose was found guilty Friday of endangering the life of the child and was sentenced to a year of probation.

East St. Louis Police are seeking a Madison man who was forced Sunday night at gunpoint into an SUV.

The 33-year-old man police have been looking for in connection with the shooting death of an East St.

A 51-year-old East St. Louis man was charged Wednesday with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in connection with an Aug.

A January sentencing date is scheduled for a California man who admits having nearly 200 pounds of cocaine when police stopped his truck in southwestern Illinois.

The 25-year-old East St. Louis man who police said murdered a 17-year-old on a service station parking lot days after his graduation, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder.

One of the best-kept volleyball secrets in the metro-east resides in the shadow of the Gateway Arch.

A man charged in an East St. Louis killing last month is now in custody. Police in St.

The controversy continues over East St. Louis, Illinois, liquor sales after two people were killed near nightclubs over the weekend.

Hot fish and coke on the side no more. Former Best Fish House owner Scott Lee Johnson, 48, of East St.

Mayor Alvin L. Parks Jr. on Wednesday rescinded his order issued Saturday prohibiting liquor sales in the city after 1 a.m. Parks rescinded the order during a mandatory meeting at City Hall of liquor-selling establishments.

Alton's new police chief, David Hayes, says he will crack down on nudity in local taverns, and his policy has led to the lewd entertainment charges against an allegedly topless female bartender.

A former Southern Illinois University Edwardsville employee pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud in connection with the theft of funds from a federal program designed to encourage poor students continue their education and using the money to buy electronics, alcohol and groceries for himself.

Rumors about Swine Flu are spreading faster than the disease itself in the East St.

A 60-year-old man who ran into a downtown restaurant Monday night saying he'd been shot has died.

The city of East St. Louis is looking for a new police chief. Mayor Alvin Parks Jr.

Two more violent deaths were reported outside East St. Louis night clubs over the weekend and now Mayor Alvin Parks has temporarily ordered bars and liquor stores to stop selling alcohol at one o'clock in the morning.

Mayor Alvin L. Parks, Jr. has suspended the liquor license for Etta's Bar and Grill, following a shooting outside of the business that left two people injured.

An East St. Louis man was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison after pleading guilty to the 2006 shooting deaths of his former girlfriend and her father.