Lexi Cortes
Reporter at Belleville News-Democrat
Investigative reporter for @bellevillenewsd. 22-23 @Poynter fellow. Reach me at [email protected].
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1 week ago |
bnd.com | Lexi Cortes
Hundreds of opponents of President Donald Trump gathered Saturday, filling up sidewalks in downtown Belleville and O’Fallon to speak out against policies they say are harmful. Among their demands were that members of Congress not go through with the Trump administration’s proposed spending cuts, which could affect public education and programs like Medicaid.
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2 weeks ago |
bnd.com | Lexi Cortes
A New Baden man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend after their breakup in 2023. Emmet E. Metzger, now 27, admitted in interviews with police to shooting Alexis Maki, 24, multiple times in the living room of the apartment they used to share on Hanover Street in New Baden on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. Investigators also obtained video footage of the shooting from a home security camera in the living room.
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2 weeks ago |
bnd.com | Lexi Cortes
Editor’s note: Learn more about the BND’s Metro-east Restaurant Inspection Database by visiting our user guide. We give you tips for what terms to search to find what you’re looking for. The Belleville News-Democrat has added hundreds of health code violations from March, April and May to its Metro-East Restaurant Inspection Database. The database contains health inspectors’ findings from all of the inspections they conducted since 2022 at restaurants across St. Clair County.
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3 weeks ago |
bnd.com | Lexi Cortes
All of the tornado sirens for St. Clair County’s new, countywide warning system for dangerous weather have now been installed. It’s a project that took more than two years to complete. The St. Clair County Board voted to sign a $2.49 million contract with Acoustic Technology, Inc. Systems at its Oct. 24, 2022, meeting. The company planned to replace 79 existing sirens across the county and install 43 new ones to provide outdoor warning coverage to every community, unless officials opted out.
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3 weeks ago |
bnd.com | Lexi Cortes
Looking east at Main Street in Shiloh, where the construction of a two-lane extension of Frank Scott Parkway East is currently underway to connect the road to Air Mobility Drive. Belleville News-Democrat Construction has started on one large St. Clair County road project that will extend Frank Scott Parkway East out to Scott Air Force Base.
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The National Transportation Safety Board, @NTSB, has announced what it believes caused the collision that killed three people in 2023. https://t.co/BEn9oNTA72
Residents could face an increased risk of cancer in their lifetime from long-term exposure to certain pollutants, according to the CDC. https://t.co/HtJZ8QIRYO
The Clinton County resident sent a letter to President Donald Trump and members of Congress, saying Republican budget proposals would cause “irreversible damage.” https://t.co/edtjbuvNsr