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Glen Simmerman was 67.

House members voted 89-40 in favor of adding Republican Rep. Chuck Bayse’s proposal as an amendment to an elections bill in a late-session attempt to pass the contested legislation before lawmakers’ mid-May deadline.

The baby girl was unhurt.

Authorities released the names of two men whose bodies were found in two separate Missouri counties this week. A third man found dead has not been identified.

A 31-year-old Highland man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to fatally shooting a Pontoon Beach police officer in October, the Madison County state's attorney said.

The officer who was hit had a broken ankle, according to Eureka Police Department.

Murder cases were dropped against Rachel Nixon of Webster Groves and Karen Ann Quinn of St. Louis in April 2018 shooting death of Jerome Boyd Jr.

St. Louis County Council Chair Rita Heard-Days may finally advance a $105 million bond issue — the county's half of a project it is splitting with the city — that has been held up for months.

In recent years, 27 Illinois colleges, branch campuses and professional schools have closed, according to the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Thirteen more are on a federal watchlist that can signal financial trouble.

A man with a gun robbed the U.S. Bank on North Lindbergh in Florissant on Wednesday afternoon, according to police.

The contract covers 120 teachers at Bishop DuBourg, Cardinal Ritter, Rosati-Kain and St. Mary’s high schools in St. Louis and St. Pius X High School in Festus.

Attorneys for the three defendants have argued that the men were not aware of the severity of the storm and did not intentionally put their passengers in danger.

A jury found Jerome Tolliver guilty in February of domestic assault and armed criminal action in a 2018 shooting that left his girlfriend at the time paralyzed.

A proposed state ban would ax the state's remaining red light and speed cameras.

City's abundance of Christians, churches and flower shops puts city at No. 5 on the list of U.S. cities and their Easter observance.

Lawmakers are considering sending checks to Missourians to spend down some of the surplus revenue the state has received in the past two years

Judge Michael Carter is running in a six-way primary for the 10th Senate District.

Moderate morning thunderstorms wiped out the energy needed for larger storms to develop later in the day.

Christopher Owens admitted murdering his boss, Brantley Tate, outside Marygrove Children's Home, 2705 Mullanphy Lane in Florissant, on Jan. 26, 2021.

The legislation, House Bill 1922, is sponsored by Rep. Kimberly-Ann Collins, a Democrat from St. Louis. For months, she has been making unannounced, hourslong visits to DOC’s 21 facilities across the state to check on conditions and hear prisoners’ stories.