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East St. Louis' mayor credits a nearby wetland restoration project for keeping torrential rainfall in late July from doing more damage than it did.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and Mayor Tishaura O. Jones have not approved a June request to move NFL settlement to higher-yielding accounts, missing out on millions for taxpayers.

Vivian Gibson recently was named author of the year by the Missouri Library Association. She also has won a Missouri Humanities Literary Achievement Award.

Homicide detectives are handling the case because the man is not expected to survive.

The new store opened Thursday and is located at 301 Watson Plaza in the same shopping center as Walgreens and Dollar Tree.

Five goats spent a week clearing out invasive weeds from the school’s rain garden, while students researched their work.

Workers haven't voted to unionize, but it's not out of the question, they say.

It’s among several tax-reduction proposals introduced in the special session.

But Alderman Tina Pihl, 17th Ward, has said she’s not convinced Cortex needs the same level of support.

Eric Quinn Collins is held without bail on charges that he fatally shot 46-year-old Michael Gray of House Springs.

The juvenile is in the company of someone she knows, and the woman seen taking her on camera was her older sister, police said.

Jurors deliberated for nearly six hours without reaching a verdict. Deliberations will continue Thursday morning.

A spokesperson for St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones said video of the fatal police shooting will be released "in the coming days" and before the investigation is closed.

Trains stopped operating between the Emerson Park and Fairview Heights MetroLink stations in Illinois.

A counselor at Camp Wartburg said she was groomed and repeatedly sexually assaulted by her 39-year-old supervisor when she was 17, a lawsuit said.

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Thomas Wall's lawyer said he's happy prosecutors dropped charges after considering additional evidence.

One of three men charged in the 2019 killing of a 17-year-old in Jennings has been sentenced to prison after striking a plea deal.

He criticized his Texas counterpart, Greg Abbott, for failing to coordinate or communicate with Illinois and Chicago officials.

“We are now processing current Medicaid applications within the federal requirement of 45 days,” a state official said Wednesday.