EAST ST. LOUIS – On October 27, 2022, the Office of the St. Clair County State’s Attorney James Gomric charged 28-year-old Brion C. Earts of East St. Louis with Failure to Report an Accident Involving Death (Class 1 Felony), Reckless Homicide (Class 3 Felony), and Aggravated Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Police Officer (Class 4 Felony) that resulted in the death of a 59-year-old male of East St. Louis on August 24, 2022. Earts was taken into custody without incident and will be held at the St. Clair County Jail. Bond on the above charges for Earts was set at $50,000, 10 percent to apply. ISP said no further information will be disseminated at this time.
Police say slight differences in state and federal gun possession laws tied their hands when school shooter Orlando Harris’ mother asked them to remove the gun from her home nine days before the shooting.
By Nassim Benchaabane and Kelsey Landis St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Parents of students at Rock Island High School have expressed concerns after they say several fights broke out on campus Thursday. Rock Island Police responded to the high school on Thursday morning. Parents are saying fights began at the beginning of the day and continued after school hours. Videos of the fights are spreading on [...]
A video is going viral on Facebook in which a truck slams into a car on St. Louis’ I-270 near the Ladue Road exit in Creve Coeur. The video shows a dark truck appearing to ram purposefully into a small car when the car tries to overtake the truck on the highway.
Five Years Ago This week in 2017, it was looking like the FCC would use the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday to hide its unpopular plan to kill net neutrality, while a Verizon-funded group was claiming that killing the rules would really help Puerto Rico. The DOJ subpoenaed Twitter about Popehat and others over a smiley emoji […]
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