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SPRINGFIELD — The former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a 36-year-old woman this month was recommended for "high-stress decision-making classes" in 2022 after violating multiple policies at his previous employer, the Logan County Sheriff's Office, records show.

Belleville, Swansea, Shiloh and Fairview Heights will allow off-duty officers to help patrol MetroLink under agreements announced Friday. They join the St. Louis sheriff's department, which has had a similar arrangement since 2020.

Police on Friday announced they have closed the investigation into the 2022 shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and plan to release two records next week.

The state licensed seven additional dispensaries and eight wholesale cultivators in St. Louis area congressional districts.

The Historic Daniel Boone Home Day Camp hosts children from around the St. Louis region to teach them about homesteading and life in the 1800s.

Authorities had charged Maurice Lee in November 2022 with the murder of a man gunned down at a BP gas station in Cool Valley.

Michelle B. Mitchell, 46, told police she stabbed a neighbor during an argument and then threw out bloody clothes, a knife and Bonds' phone, charges said.

A Ferguson-Florissant School District administrator is under investigation in Maryland for continuing to serve on a school board in that state after taking a job in Missouri.

Some St. Louis-area stylists are taking precautions in the salon, while trying to balance what their customers want and expect.

The project, called Prairie Encore, will feature several restaurants and sand volleyball and pickleball courts.

John Payne recruited eligible Missourians and had them sign a 47-page contract that would ultimately give him and his partners 90.1% of profits and majority control of the business.

One year after becoming schools superintendent, Keisha Scarlett has been replaced as questions roil about finances in the district.

Medical schools and medical device companies use the life-like cadavers for training.

Robert LaRouche, a mainstay of the Post-Dispatch photo staff for 44 years who was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in 2016, has died at 90.

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Officers responded to a call to locate 15-year-old Mia Steed, and instead found another teen reported missing in Hazelwood.

Judge David Roither asked prosecutor Rob Huq whether he truly believed a jury would convict Chad Morris, the owner of Bar:PM.

Black students now make up only 5.45% of the student population while white students make up 76.4%, according to the most recent data online.

A 3-year-old child died Thursday morning after being thrown from a car that struck a tractor-trailer on eastbound Interstate 70 in St. Louis.