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Fairview Heights families and teachers confront school board about ‘financial difficulty’
Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Belleville News-Democrat. Teachers, parents and community members filled the gym bleachers at Grant Middle School Tuesday evening to voice their concerns following the Illinois State Board of Education’s recent certification of Grant District 110 as being in financial difficulty. The...
Well Being Check in Fairview Heights leads to discovery of man who had a stroke days prior
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (First Alert 4) – A Fairview Heights police officer helped save an 83-year-old man who had a stroke while home alone. Monday afternoon, Fairview Heights police were asked to do a Well Being Check for a man who lived on Monticello Place. The person who requested the check said he hadn’t spoken to his dad since Thursday.
‘Police could have helped;’ Grandmother still searching for missing local teen last seen in Kansas City
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Wednesday afternoon, Kansas City Police posted on social media asking for the public’s help in finding T’Montez Hurt, 19, of St. Louis, who went missing on February 1. His grandmother, Tecona Donald-Sullivan, says her grandson is a Missouri Western University freshman...
Additional guns, ammunition found at home of Metro East man arrested after having guns, body armor near parade route
SWANSEA, Ill. (First Alert 4) - Police have discovered more guns that belonged to a Metro East man who was arrested before a St. Patrick’s Day parade, which some say prevented a tragedy. Joel De Jesus-Diaz, 44, was arrested before the Belleville, Illinois, St. Patrick’s Day parade when, at...
Belleville roundabout costs have skyrocketed, putting 13-year-old plan back in limbo
Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Belleville News-Democrat. It’s been 13 years since the city of Belleville hired a local engineering firm to design a roundabout at the intersection of South Belt East and Freeburg Avenue, near Walnut Hill Cemetery. The project got delayed for a...
Wood River conducts drug bust
A Wood River man is jailed after allegedly violating the terms of a pre-trial release. 54-year-old Jeffrey S. Darnell was taken into custody Wednesday at his home in the first block of Thompson Street on a felony warrant for Possession of Methamphetamine. Darnell was out of jail on a pre-trial...
Belleville Man Sentenced To 40 Years For Washington County Murder
45 year-old Kevin Loucks has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder 44 year-old Montez Pearson. The Belleville Illinois native was found guilty of First-Degree Murder last October after an extensive investigation by the Illinois State Police Division of Criminal Investigation Zone 7. Pearson was found dead...
Final defendant in St. Louis area meth ring sentenced to 19-1/2 years in prison
U.S. District Judge District Court Judge Ronnie L. White on Tuesday sentenced the final defendant in a methamphetamine distribution ring to 235 months (19-1/2 years) in prison. Dedrick Deshon Jordan, who was sentenced Tuesday, is one of 15 defendants who pleaded guilty in the case. Jordan, 35, and his co-defendants...
Andrew Caldwell, Who Claimed He Was ‘Deliveredt’ From Homosexuality, Is Running For Office In St. Louis
Andrew Caldwell, who went viral for claiming in church that he was "deliveredt" from being a homosexual, announced his run for public office. The post Andrew Caldwell, Who Claimed He Was ‘Deliveredt’ From Homosexuality, Is Running For Office In St. Louis appeared first on NewsOne.
1 found dead after domestic disturbance in south St. Louis
ST. LOUIS — One person was found dead following a domestic disturbance in south St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, police officers found the victim dead overnight Wednesday in the 3200 block of North Dakota Street, located on the edge of the city's Dutchtown neighborhood.
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