{"id":5561,"date":"2026-10-03T23:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/250-teens-gather-as-fights-erupt-in-fairview-heights\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:08:09","slug":"250-teens-gather-as-fights-erupt-in-fairview-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/250-teens-gather-as-fights-erupt-in-fairview-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"250 Teens Gather as Fights Erupt in Fairview Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/KU3eexTEORQ\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Juveniles arrested, parents charged after fight involving nearly 250 teens at Raising Cane&amp;apos;s\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KU3eexTEORQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) Two juveniles were arrested, and a parent was charged after fights broke out near a Raising Cane\u2019s restaurant in Fairview Heights, where about 250 juveniles were gathered, according to reports citing Fairview Heights police. The incident occurred near the Raising Cane\u2019s at 6565 North Illinois Street in Fairview Heights, a major Metro East retail and restaurant corridor. KSDK reported that Fairview Heights police arrested two juveniles after fights broke out as approximately 250 young people gathered near the restaurant. Another report of the incident similarly described police arresting two teenagers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/250-teens-gather-as-fights-erupt-in-fairview-heights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) Two juveniles were arrested, and a parent was charged after fights broke out near a Raising Cane\u2019s restaurant in Fairview Heights, where about 250 juveniles were gathered, according to reports citing Fairview&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5563,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}