Cahokia News

Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday announced the awarding of a $483,875 contract for improvements at St.

Around 3:30 a.m. officers responded to the Conoco-Phillips store in the 2200 block of Camp Jackson, just east of Interstate 255 and found the front doors of the business smashed inward.

Hoerner is a partner in the Belleville law firm of Becker, Paulson, Hoerner & Thompson.

About 2,300 residents of the Dupo area remain without power as of 6 a.m. Monday thanks to early morning storms, according to Ameren.

On a warm spring day, students at Lindenwood University-Belleville took time from studying for finals to play Frisbee in the sunken garden in front of the college at 2600 W. Main St.

Angels manager Mike Scioscia saw the direction Barry Enright's night was going and he wasn't about to give the right-hander any more rope.

Mayor Mark Eckert announced Thursday that he is recommending Hoerner for the city attorney job based in large part on Hoerner's wide experience as an attorney who has represented metro-east towns and school districts, including the village of Cahokia and East St.

According to police reports, the man fled police who were conducting a sweep for illegal drugs and guns and fugitives Wednesday in Cahokia.

An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with , 35, on Monday with felony counts of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse and "transmitting" HIV through intimate contact during the first half of 2011, when the student was 17.

An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man involving a different student.

Mario Hunt, 35, of the 1900 block of Florence Ave., Cahokia, was charged Monday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault, and sexual transmission of HIV, Cahokia Police Lt.

So St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern is pushing to have the owners of buildings with graffiti fined if they don't remove it in a certain amount of time.

Right now, police aren't saying what the accusations are and if the incident happened on or off school property.

East St. Louis -- The nearly year-old lawsuit filed by elected board members of District 189 after the Illinois State Board of Education attempted to take it over was settled Tuesday, with a St.

Mystery still surrounds three boxes of arrowheads and other projectile points uncovered several years ago in the basement of a building at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.

A southwestern Illinois salvage yard is being sued over alleged environmental violations involving a fire that consumed hundreds of used tires.

Gov. Pat Quinn released a report this week that forecasts continued major export growth for the Illinois coal industry due to the state's large volumes of coal, competitive prices, and access to prime water and land transportation routes.

A Cahokia teen was sentenced to 38 years in prison for murdering his teen-aged girlfriend and shooting her friend last year.

The new report by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will be released Wednesday morning at St.

Steveland Kidd, 25, has been charged with two counts of violation of absentee ballots.