Recent News About City of East Saint Louis
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EAST ST. LOUIS – Kristen Poshard, who claims Madison County fired her for resisting harassment by former county board member Phil Chapman, will try to settle with Chapman and the county next month.
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BENTON – Belleville police sergeant Kimberly Fulkerson sued Chief William Clay on Nov. 25, claiming his department refuses to promote her because of her gender.
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EAST ST. LOUIS – Centreville homeowners Cornelius Bennett and Earlie Fuse petitioned U.S.
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Neither Centreville or Alorton, whose citizens are voting on a merger proposal in the upcoming March 17 primary, filed last year’s financial report or audit with state comptroller Susana Mendoza.
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GRANITE CITY – Facing a constitutional challenge and a change in Illinois law, city leaders repealed an ordinance requiring a landlord to evict tenants if anyone in the home commits a felony in the city.
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EAST ST. LOUIS – Belleville detectives Daniel Collins and Timothy Crimm and the city must answer Circuit Judge Ron Duebbert’s malicious prosecution suit, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Mills ruled on Sept. 13.
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"For there to be a shadow, there has to be light," Pastor Jamey Bridges said. "And to me, Nick was light. He was light the way he lived."
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BELLEVILLE – Physician Helen Mussemann, facing a wrongful death suit, moved for substitution of Circuit Judge Christopher Kolker on April 1.
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BELLEVILLE – East St. Louis must pay George Ripplinger $112,506.77 as winner of an overtime pay suit for former assistant fire chief William Clossen, Associate Judge Julie Katz ruled on March 5.
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Attorneys John Hipskind and Brady McAninch of Belleville have been selected as part of the 2019 Super Lawyers list of Rising Stars for Illinois.
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BELLEVILLE – East St. Louis election commissioners must issue subpoenas that mayoral candidate Robert Eastern III requested in a ballot dispute, St. Clair County Associate Judge Julie Katz ruled on Jan. 11.
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The Fifth District Appellate Court has upheld a lower court’s decision to award more than $40,000in damages to a woman injured when she fell inside an East St. Louis Shriners building.
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Former East St. Louis Democratic party chairman Charlie Powell demolishes burnt buildings and keeps the valuable remains for himself, according to a suit in St. Clair County circuit court.
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According to charges filed by interim U.S. Attorney Donald Boyce last week, East St. Louis Township Supervisor Oliver Hamilton apparently spent more than $40,000 from the township treasury for a Las Vegas party and other personal purposes while racking up $230,000 in credit card expenses in more than three years.
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East St. Louis Township supervisor Oliver Hamilton spent more than $40,000 from the township treasury for a Las Vegas party and other personal purposes, interim U.S. attorney Donald Boyce charged on Nov. 15.
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Sivia is now the only attorney in the St. Louis metro area to have the certification
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It's illegal to tamper with juries. Trying to inundate potential jurors with one-sided advertising is not.
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Manufacturers of eye care solution will appeal a class certification order that U.S. District Judge Staci Yandle entered July 25 on behalf of glaucoma patients who claim eye droppers waste fluid.
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The Fifth District Appellate Court has affirmed St. Clair County Circuit Judge John Baricevic who denied the post conviction petition of a 16-year-old sentenced as an adult to 15 years in prison for a Belleville armed robbery.
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So, before shedding a tear of praise and applauding the cheerful and blind optimism of the Obamas and the Obama third-term-wannabe, I want the grandparents, parents and teens in Detroit, Chicago, Spartanburg (S.C.), Houston, Greenville (S.C.), Atlanta, Saginaw (Mich.), Memphis and St. Louis (nine cities labeled as “war zones” by most) to grade Michelle’s self-proclaimed reason to exist. Have they “left something better” for your kids and grandkids?
