by Aminah Ali | Jun 23, 2021 | Updates
An East St. Louis man will spend 5 years in prison for shooting a gun into the air at a child’s birthday party. Marco B. Orr, 32, has been sentenced to 63 months in federal prison. Orr pled guilty in April to one count of unlawful firearm possession by a convicted...
by Aminah Ali | Jun 22, 2021 | Local, News
A 17-year-old was shot early Tuesday morning. The incident happened shortly before 4am in the 3000 block of Cass. The young man had been shot in the leg as he had left his home to meet up with a girlfriend. After being shot, he managed to get home and alerted his...
by Aminah Ali | Jun 22, 2021 | Local, News
At approximately 7:45 pm Monday evening, June 21st, a passerby observed an unknown object in the pond at the north end of Shaw Park. Responding officers discovered a deceased male subject partially submerged in the pond. The decedent was recovered & no obvious...
by Aminah Ali | Jun 21, 2021 | Local, News
An area man has been sentenced to prison for life for killing his ex-girlfriend and her mother. Also, he started a fire that resulted in the death of his 10-month-old son. On Thursday, Eric Lawson, who was convicted on three counts of murder got his sentence. A death...
by Aminah Ali | Jun 21, 2021 | Community, Local, News, Top Stories
2 million tax dollars gone to waste as the Jamestown Mall redevelopment plan is placed on hold. Councilwoman Webb voted no to the 75.8 million dollar redevelopment contract that the St. Louis County Authority entered in with Kansas city based Northpoint. Webb...
