With assistance from the U.S. Marshals Service, Illinois State Police special agents arrested a man accused of fatally shooting a Granite City woman last year. Authorities say Jamya Dukes, 22, was ...

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State troopers arrested 25 people in a “violent crime suppression” operation in the East St. Louis area in the past couple of years. Along with the arrests, troopers seized 13 guns in the crackdown ...

UPDATE 1/2/26: This article has been updated with information about the ages of the victims and the location of the double-stabbing in East St. Louis. A Belleville man has been arrested and charged in ...

EDWARDSVILLE — A brief bench trial ended with a guilty verdict against one of three men accused in a murder-for-hire plot targeting a Collinsville woman in January 2025. Gary D. Johnson, 46, of East ...

(The Center Square) – State officials are crediting the Public Safety Enforcement Group for East St. Louis reporting its lowest number of homicides in at least 45 years. Illinois State Police created ...