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The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. has eased for the third week in a row.

Customers charged illegal fees by two of the largest credit repair firms will soon see a refund check, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced.

Kaja Veilleux has been hunting New England attic treasures for more than 50 years. He once found a copy of the Declaration of Independence sitting on a trash heap.

The first guest invited to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 wasn’t a company executive, a politician or a celebrity.

The Convention Center station, a few blocks to the northwest, will soon close for similar work. Metro says it will close the station for several months starting Jan. 6.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard's laundry list of medical conditions were fictitious. She was a victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy — a psychological disorder.

Here's what local businesses donated, expanded and merged this week.

Here are this week's local business awards, hires and promotions.

Police are investigating a Thursday morning shooting that killed a 20-year-old resident of a Spanish Lake neighborhood.

A Ballwin man faces multiple child pornography charges issued Friday, a day after a search warrant in the case was carried out.

An 18-year-old St. Louis man was charged Thursday for his alleged role in a July arson case in St. Louis County.

A Wentzville woman was killed early Saturday by a Lake St. Louis car crash. The accident happened at 2:15 a.m. on Veterans Memorial Parkway.

St. Louis homicide detectives are investigating a "suspicious death" in the city's Dutchtown neighborhood, where a man was found dead in an apartment Friday.

Three of four defendants — members of the Uhuru Movement who were convicted in September of conspiring to act as Russian agents — will be sentenced Monday.

Missouri’s population of eastern hellbenders is already listed as endangered, but the protection might soon extend to their brethren in the rest of the country.

Emma Lembke, 21, a senior at Washington University, founded Log Off, a group aimed at tackling the complexities of social media and its impact on younger generations.

Clayton Poindexter of Affton and Mark Amoroso of St. Louis were planning to play golf. They ended up pulling the pilot out of a burning plane after a crash.

A letter to staff said the resignation of “essential medical professionals” left the taxpayer-supported nonprofit unable to carry out clinical functions such as pregnancy testing and ultrasounds.

The cold case of Patrenia Butler-Turner returned to public attention in 2023, when skeletal remains were found in a wooded area along Illinois 111 in Pontoon Beach.

Cortex and Wash. U. officials had said they need $4 million in tax increment financing and $36 million in bonds approved by January.