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Hazardous Materials Situation in Alorton Cleared
ALORTON, Il (KMOX)-Emergency crews have been released from on the scene of a hazmat situation in Alorton. Initial reports were that an explosive gas was leaking in the 1700 block of south 20th, which...
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Two Officers Injured Before Shooting a Suspect
ALORTON, IL. (KMOX) - Two Alorton police officers are injured and a suspect is wounded by a police bullet. Police had been called to the Greystone Apartments by a woman who said a man broke her door...
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Arson Supected In Five Alarm Fire At Alorton Businesses
ALORTON (KMOX) – Investigators call a Tuesday, late-night five alarm fire in the Metro East “very suspicious.” The flames completely consumed a restaurant at 42nd and Grand in Alorton called “Fish,...
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Misuse of Tax Money Investigated in Alorton IL
ALORTON, IL. (KMOX) – In Alorton Illinois, F.B.I. agents and Illinois State Police spent the day Thursday at the village hall and Mayor Randy McCallum’s home including his garage. They confiscated a...
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Federal and State Prosecutors Warn of “No-Man’s Land” of Violent Crime in...
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, ILL –(KMOX)–Federal and state prosecutors are calling for a radical change in the way East St. Louis and neighboring towns are policed — branding the region “a no man’s land” of high...
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F.B.I. Searches for Alorton Street Superintendent
ALORTON, IL. (KMOX) - The F.B.I. is looking for the street superintendent of the Village of Alorton. 38 year old Ronnie Cummings is considered a fugitive. U.S. Attorney Stephen Wigginton says Cummings...
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Alorton Mayor Resigns Amid Federal Probe
ALORTON, Ill. (KMOX) – The mayor of a southwestern Illinois village has resigned as federal investigators probe what he has said involves questions about the community’s tax increment financing. The...
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Alorton Mayor, Three Others Charged WIth Open Meeting Violations
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (KMOX) – Multiple counts of violating the Opens Meetings Act have been filed against both the former and current mayors of Alorton Illinois. According to charges filed by St. Clair...
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Feds To Help Target Criminals In Metro East
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL (KMOX)-Calling it a “war zone”, federal state and local officials are sending a ‘surge’ of agents and officers into the East St. Louis area to track down the worst criminals. US...
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Former Alorton Street Super Gets 41 Months
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A judge in East St. Louis has sentenced a former southwestern Illinois village official to three years and five months in federal prison in a felony weapons case. The...
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Quinn Creates Southwest Illinois Police Commission
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A new Illinois law has created a police commission in southwest Illinois. Quinn signed a bill Thursday in East St. Louis that creates the Metro East Police District...
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Former Alorton Mayor Heading To Prison For Corruption
ALORTON, Ill. (KMOX) - A federal judge in East St. Louis Monday sentenced formor Alorton mayor Randy McCallum to 43 months in prison on corruption charges. McCallum, 44, had earlier entered guilty...
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Man Accused of Threatening Prosecutor
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A man is jailed in southwestern Illinois on charges that he threatened a prosecutor. A special appointed prosecutor has charged 58-year-old Norman Stuckey in St. Clair County...
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Alorton Mayor Candidate Accused of Sneaking Cellphone to Jailed Relative
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A southwestern Illinois village clerk seeking to be mayor is free on bond after being accused of sneaking a cellphone to a jailed relative while working as a records clerk for...
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Voter Fraud Investigation in the Metro East
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (KMOX) — Charges of election fraud are being leveled in two metro east communities. St. Clair County Clerk Bob Delaney says his office is holding on to nearly 400 absentee ballots and...
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3 Metro-East Men Charged With Election Fraud
KMOX first reported this story. READ MORE: Voter Fraud Investigation in the Metro East BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Three southwestern Illinois men are accused of violating the state’s absentee ballot laws...
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After Nine Months, Quinn Insists Metro East Police Commission Is Working
EAST ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - It has been nine months since Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law creating the Metro East Police Commission, meant to oversee crime-fighting activities in four troubled...
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Driver Allegedly Tossed Dogs From SUV on Illinois Interstate
ALORTON, IL (KMOX) - The hunt is on for the person who threw two puppies out their car window and onto Interstate 255. The puppies, one white and one brown, were reportedly driven over and killed after...
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Disabled Man Left at Metro-East Denny’s, State Investigates
ALORTON, Ill. (AP) – Police in southwestern Illinois are asking the state to investigate a Lebanon nursing home after workers left a disabled man at a truck stop. The Belleville News-Democrat reports...
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Mold Closes Two St. Clair County Post Offices
ALORTON, Ill. (KMOX) - Two St. Clair County, Illinois post offices were shut down Tuesday morning due to concerns over mold. The post offices in both Alorton and Cahokia were closed. The United States...
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Judge Declares Mistrial in Metro East Double Murder Case
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southern Illinois judge has declared a mistrial in a double murder trial. Twenty-three year-old Randall J. McCallum was charged in the 2009 shooting deaths of 21-year-olds...
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Four Troubled Metro East Police Departments To Get Reform Manual
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. (KMOX) - The newly established Metro East Police District Commission is working on an operational reforms manual for four police departments: Alorton, Brooklyn, East St. Louis...
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Alorton Fire Chief Gets 2 Years for Probation Violation
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A southwestern Illinois fire chief has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for violating his probation related to a previous drug case. A federal judge in East St....
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Man Sought in East St. Louis Killing Surrenders
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - An East St. Louis man turned himself in to southwestern Illinois police after authorities wanted to question him in connection with last weekend’s stabbing death of his...
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Former Alorton Mayor’s Son Convicted of 2 Murders
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The son of a former mayor of the southern Illinois city of Alorton has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for a 2009 double homicide. A St. Clair County jury...
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