U.S. Marshals make arrest in East St. Louis nightclub murder

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – Last Friday, United States Marshals made an arrest in connection with a fatal shooting at an East St. Louis, Illinois, nightclub. The shooting happened on July 24, 2023, at a business in the 600 block of Martin Luther King Drive. The victim, Ryan Morton of Cahokia Heights, had been shot […]

Conflicting stories after police cruiser crashes into St. Louis bar

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 has asked the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for additional clarification after hearing differing accounts about the cause of an overnight crash involving a police vehicle. The crash happened just before 12:30 a.m. Monday at Bar: PM along the 7100 block of South Broadway, in the Carondelet neighborhood. Two St. […]

Suspect jailed after Illinois hotel standoff

A 29-year-old Rock Falls man is in custody after police allege he was involved in a standoff Sunday at a hotel in Lee County, according to a news release. Shortly after 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Lee County Dispatch received a 911 call from the Magnuson Hotel, 443 Illinois Route 2, that a man had just threatened […]

USGS: 3.1 earthquake reported in Illinois

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ill. — A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was reported in central Illinois, according to the United States Geological Survey. The USGS reports the earthquake happened around 4:10 a.m. Monday near Waltonville, a village in Jefferson County, Illinois. So far, there have been no reports of damage. No further details have been provided. Just last […]

New training aims to cut down on wrongful arrests in Illinois

Illinois leads the country in prison exonerations, according to the National Registry of Exonerations and the Center for Wrongful Convictions. In Illinois, the number one reason for wrongful arrests is police misconduct. To solve the problem, the Illinois Police Training Institute has started a new training program.I dug a bit deeper into this new training, […]

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