A total of six metro-east fire departments battled the blaze that severely damaged four apartment buildings at the Longacre Ponds complex in Fairview Heights Thursday afternoon. One firefighter was transported to a hospital for heat exhaustion but no one else was injured.
Belleville’s Finance Committee on Thursday approved tax incentives worth about $38 million for the developers targeting a site on Illinois 15 near the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows.
Even though Santa won’t be coming to town for a couple of months, volunteers are hard at work sprucing up his Belleville home. It’s getting a new roof, doors, siding and a fresh coat of paint, thanks to $5,000 raised for the project.
Nineteen-year-old David E. Fields of Shiloh has been sentenced to six years in prison as a result of a plea deal with prosecutors. Fields, a former Belleville East High School student, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery of a pregnant woman, and prosecutors dismissed the more serious charge of criminal sexual assault.
