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Also Wednesday, one of the jail’s harshest critics resigned their post on the jail's civilian oversight board.

In a letter, Janis Mensah, who served as the board’s vice chair, said the jail’s commissioner should resign, the jail should close, that Mayor Tishaura O. Jones should be “ashamed.”

Without advertising job opening or hiring search firm, council votes 5-1 to hire Amber Withycombe, a friend and political ally of Mayor Nikalyn Knapper.

Taleb Rebhi Ali-Jawher shot and killed Christopher Simmons when he believed Simmons was stealing a $1.10 candy bar from a gas station in Old North St. Louis.

A Chesterfield man was told by a homeowners association that he couldn't add solar panels to his house. Why are solar fights breaking out in the county?

Indoor soccer, the cult, began on Dec. 14, 1979, when 18,005 fans, then a league record, jammed The Arena to watch the Hartford Hellions defeat the St. Louis Steamers 5-4.

According to data from the Illinois State Police, 6,141 people have disclosed owning 12,086 firearms and 6,254 accessories covered under the ban. Deadline to register is Jan. 1.

A 15-year-old boy was charged as an adult Thursday with murder in the January shooting death of a woman during a 48-hour crime spree.

TaxSlayer was accused in July of sharing personal information with the parent company of Facebook.

The 24-year-old victim was found dead Monday night in the front yard of a home in the 5400 block of Arlington Avenue.

It will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The acting director of the Missouri Department of Corrections told a panel of lawmakers that the plan now is to have room for 14 mothers, double the size.

Brian Dorsey, a central Missouri man convicted of killing his cousin and her husband in 2006, is scheduled to die on April 9.

Content by Confluence Academies. The Culinary Arts program is only one of the jewels of Confluence Academies.

Busch Stadium will remain Busch Stadium into 2030, the Cardinals announced Wednesday.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page warned last week that $14 million in budget cuts will stall a senior property tax freeze, lead to layoffs and reduce services.

"Nobody is a villain. It's been frustrating to see the back and forth," Alderman Rasheen Aldridge said. "I want to get to a spot where everyone wins."

Nearly a dozen people have died in the jail’s custody in two years. Staffing shortages are worsening. And many are concerned that inmates are without access to basic necessities.

Rep. Bob Titus, a Billings Republican, formally withdrew the legislation just two days after President Joe Biden’s campaign hammered the legislation.

The nonprofit Institute for Justice, which handled a landmark Supreme Court eminent domain case, filed suit on behalf of the business owners.