east st. louis

I know it sounds weird to apply emotions to inanimate objects, but this bridge just oozes sadness. It's an abandoned Missouri bridge that once was a part of the legendary Route 66.

A man and a woman have been charged in the death of a southwestern Illinois man whose body was found in the trunk of a vehicle after a police chase.

A southwestern Illinois jury has acquitted an East St. Louis man of murder charges linked to the stabbing death of his nephew during a Fourth of July party last year.

A 54-year-old southwestern Illinois man has been ordered to spend more than eight years in federal prison for possessing thousands of images of child pornography.

East St. Louis police say a 14-year-old boy is hospitalized after he was shot multiple times while mowing the grass at his home. Yesterday's shooting came just a day after three people were killed during a shooting outside one of the city's nightclubs...