Tyre Sampson, 14, died March 24, 2022, after falling from a 430-foot free-fall amusement ride in the heart of Orlando's tourist district.
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The proposed constitutional amendment would abolish partisan primary elections and allow voters to rank their top four choices, regardless of party.
By Kurt Erickson St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aid to attend college and redeveloping the Martin Luther King Drive corridor are on a long list of items in a ‘roadmap to economic justice’ released Monday by Mayor Tishaura O. Jones.
By Mark Schlinkmann St. Louis Post-Dispatch
House members on Monday voted 93-41 to require transgender students to compete on teams that match the “biological sex” listed on their birth certificates.
Democrats say the proposal is an attempt to undermine the democratic process.
By Kurt Erickson St. Louis Post-Dispatch
An employee would be able to sue if they suffered an injury due to a vaccine required by their boss.
By Jack Suntrup St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If approved by the County Council and then by voters, it would effectively give the county’s legislative body final say over who leads county departments.
By Nassim Benchaabane St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The legislation advanced to the House on a 30-2 vote.
By Kurt Erickson St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ryan Kanzler of Festus pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to pilfering personal checks and using credit cards from stolen mail.
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In Missouri, six out of ten suicides involve a firearm, according to the Missouri Foundation for Health.
By Kaitlin Washburn | The Kansas City Star (TNS)
Christian, Catholic, Lutheran and Orthodox Jewish organizations will partner to distribute scholarships to religious schools.
By Blythe Bernhard St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Police on Monday said a 31-year-old man has died, three weeks after he was shot in north St. Louis County in March.
Dewight Price was fatally shot April 24 in St. Louis County. Two teens have now been charged in the killing.
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Police on Monday released the name of a 46-year-old man shot to death near Penrose Park in north St. Louis early Friday.
Brian Gotschall pleaded guilty to charges of making phone threats to harm employees of Electronic Arts and their children.
By Joel Currier St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A woman died Sunday night after the car she was riding in crashed into a utility pole in the city’s North Riverfront neighborhood.
Authorities on Monday released the identity of the man who died during a fire in his home early Friday in Granite City.
Zachary Taylor Kearnes admitted stabbing and strangling Christina Hesselmeyer in south St. Louis on Nov. 14, 2020.
By Robert Patrick St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A shooting took place at around 1:40 a.m. in the 2000 block of North Florissant, according to police.
By Annika Merrilees St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A man died in a single-car crash overnight near the intersection of North Broadway and Dock Street, according to police reports.