BELLEVILLE, IL (KTRS) The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a two-year-old’s death in Belleville early Friday. Sheriff’s deputies were called to a home in the 26-hundred block of Eastview Drive in Belleville about one o-clock Friday morning. The two-year-old boy was originally taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville by the child’s mother and…
A 47 year-old metro east man is facing charges connected a bank robbery last month. Police say that William Grier entered a Regions Bank in Belleville, demanded money from a bank teller and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. He remains in jail on $150,000 bail.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Belleville elected leaders have voted unanimously to dissolve a township serving the same area as the city. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1NTsvLR ) reports the Belleville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to eliminate the township. The move comes after state lawmakers approved a provision last year giving the city and…
( KTRS ) A Belleville woman who pleaded guilty to fraud charges for lying about a terminal ovarian cancer diagnosis has been sentenced to three years in prison. Alissa Jackson, 32, was charged in June 2014 with bilking thousands of dollars in donations, free food and a donated minivan from hundreds of people on behalf…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The Belleville School Board has approved purchasing Google Chromebooks for second-graders and younger. District 118 students in third through eighth grades have had the laptops. The (Belleville) News-Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/1l69Miy ) the school board approved Chromebook purchases for younger students. There will be one Chromebook for each of six kindergarten centers.…