St Clair County News

Joyce Gorecki of Swansea places a bag of medicine into the collection container in the lobby at the St.

The St. Clair County Historical Society will expand into the house next door to its Victorian House and Museum in Belleville in the next few years.

The following incidents were listed among the official reports of local law enforcement agencies and court clerks.

St. Clair County is on the verge of paying $35,000 to state Sen. James Clayborne, D-Belleville, and business associate Joseph Summerill, of Washington, D.C., for their work to bring more federal inmates to the county jail.

The Belleville News-Democrat reports that St. Clair County prosecutors charged 46-year-old Terry Roy on Friday with a felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals.

A team of deputies from the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department and officers from the Washington Park Police officers raided a home Friday searching for suspects accused of shooting people and property for the past several months.

By the end of April 2015, police officers will no longer have to live in the city, according to the four-year police union contract that the City Council approved Friday.

A man's body was pulled from the Mississippi River about 10 a.m. Friday, St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone said.

Officers responded to a report of a subject not conscious, not breathing. Officers located the female suspect, 23, who had overdosed and was in possession of a controlled substance.

Donald W. Arndt, 33, of St. Louis, and Brittany D. Pashia, 23, of De Soto, Mo., were charged with meth-related offenses after a high-speed chase that ended in Columbia with Arndt attacking police officers, police said.

Cheryl Venorsky, 41, said the Swansea Police Department has a history of discriminating against female police officers and the police chief is looking for reasons to fire her.

During a coroner's inquest Wednesday morning, St. Clair County Deputy Coroner Curt Schildknecht read the toxicology report in the death of Jessica M. Williams, 30, to the jury and went over the details of her death.

The City Council cannot act on the proposed Interstate 64 project at Ruby Lane until a decision on whether it's a conflict of interest for an alderwoman to vote on the project is made, a judge ordered Wednesday.

St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly says that a shadow mortgage recording system developed by several large participants in the mortgage industry deprives the public of accurate information on property ownership.

The O’Fallon District 90 school board was confronted by an angry room full of taxpayers when it held a public hearing on May 15 to discuss its intent to issue $1.6 million in working cash bonds that will be used to fund a five-year plan to replace and upgrade the technology in its schools.

A motorcyclist has filed suit against the driver who he claims veered into his lane of traffic and struck his vehicle.

A St. Clair County man is accused of owing nearly $80,000 in credit card debt. Cavalry Portfolio Services LLC filed a lawsuit April 30 in St.

BELLEVILLE, Illinois -- St. Clair County State's Attorney Brendan Kelly has filed suit against 22 local and national banks for allegedly failing to pay a required mortgage fee when home loans were bought and sold.

'A vigilant homeowner turned a rifle on two men suspected of setting fires in the Freeburg area over the past few weeks and held them until authorities arrived.' Turns out that the pair were a couple of serial firebugs who got their jollies by burning barns and other outbuildings on farms southeast of St.

A Shiloh man has been charged with felony assault after allegedly throwing a machete at a police officer on Tuesday.