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Blighted 7th Ward home that caught fire had 3 demolition permits approved since 2010 The fire spread next door and left a couple homeless Share Updated: 10:47 PM CST Mar 12, 2021 The fire spread next door and left a couple homeless Share Updated: 10:47 PM CST Mar 12, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript KNOW ABOUT HOW THEY WILL HONOR HIS LEGACY. >> BASICALLY MY LIFE IS GONE. SULA: A COUPLE IN THE 7TH WARD WANTS ANSWERS AFTER BEING FORCED OUT OF THEIR HOME WHEN THE ABANDONED HOUSE NEXT DOOR CAUGHT FIRE AND SPREAD TO THEIR HOUSE. WDSU CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GR...

Ford announces bid for Alton city council seat The Telegraph FacebookTwitterEmail ALTON — Patty Ford on Tuesday officially announced her campaign as an alderman for Alton’s 7th Ward. Ford and Nate Keener are vying April 6 to succeed retiring Alton Alderman David Boulds in the 7th Ward. A lifelong resident of Alton, Ford graduated from Alton High School in 1973 and attended Lewis & Clark Community College. She has 20 years of experience in finance with area financial institutions, including Godfrey State Bank, the Bank of Alton, Wedge Bank and Liberty Bank. She has spent the last 25 years ...

Fought and fought and fought at a time when he easily could have become discouraged. but kept on. i think that's a lesson that's important if you want to effect real change in the country. he was able to do it. >> howard as a journalist, i'm going to look to w.e.b. dubois. even though he was trained as a sociologist, i regard him as one of america's great journalists of any color up there with edward r. murrow or john hiresy, you name it because he took his skills and approach into the city of philadelphia originally into the 7th ward of philadelphia. and described the lives of black people th...

We didn't know his name. we didn't know how he ended up here. rescue crews were, too busy focused on trying to save those who were still living to even think about recovering the dead. at that point. ten years later, however, we do know who that man was. his name was jerry peters. he was 64 years old. and it turns out his family goes back generations in new orleans. jared peter's great grandfather founded a small church on this plot of land in new orleans 7th ward in 1918. his name was joseph davis. today, the church is run by pastor jerry darby, his nephew. hello. so nice to meet you, pastor....

His name was jerry peters. he was 64 years old. and it turns out his family goes back generations in new orleans. jared peter's great grandfather founded a small church on this plot of land in new orleans 7th ward in 1918. his name was joseph davis. today, the church is run by pastor jerry darby, his nephew. hello. so nice to meet you, pastor. thank you for having us. it turns out, pastor darby was named after his uncle jerry peters. >> you didn't call him uncle jerry, though. everybody called him fat. >> is that right? >> yes, that was his name. this is jerry peters, dressed as