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Former Boone County Clerk Taylor Burks withdraws from race, leaving former state Sen. Kurt Schaefer as only central Missouri candidate in August’s GOP primary.

A memorial service will be held in Chesterfield Friday for the four children killed in a murder-suicide last week in Ferguson.

A man died Thursday night after he was ejected from a car during a crash in the city's Downtown neighborhood.

The number of people using marijuana has increased significantly in recent decades in the U.S., where its recreational use has been legalized in 24 states, including Missouri and Illinois.

David and Jane Sweeney say the method of separating they chose, known as collaborative divorce, laid the foundation for an amicable co-parenting relationship.

On March 1, 1969, Blues coach Scotty Bowman put the three Plager brothers, all defensemen, in the starting lineup at forward and played them on the same line together.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on March 2, 1932:

Of those 11 deaths, six were children. Last year, just 44 people died in house fires across all of Missouri, according to U.S. Fire Administration.

St. Louis keeps blocking the release of an audit of police shooting investigations. Why is the mayor working to keep the police department in the shadows?

The internet has returned to Francis Howell schools two weeks after a cyberattack disrupted the district’s computer systems. But the source of the attack remain unknown.

The appliance retailer, formerly St. Louis-based Goedeker’s, said that despite working aggressively to raise capital and improve its liquidity position, the company could not obtain additional financing.

Matthew Mancini was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a man and then wrapping his body in plastic and hiding it inside the trunk of a vehicle.

Arizona restaurateur Sam Fox's Flower Child, a healthy salad and wrap concept, is slated to open in Frontenac this summer.

The St. Louis region's main sewer district is suing one of the region's smallest and poorest cities for more than $400,000 in unpaid sewer bills.

A former St. Louis school principal agreed Wednesday to plead guilty in the 2016 murder of a teacher.

Derrick D. Clark, 19, and Jeremiah M. Sutton, 22, are each facing two charges in connection with the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Josiah Robinson at an apartment in the 900 block of Goodfellow Boulevard on Jan. 28.

Prosecutors on Wednesday filed murder charges against a man already charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his neighbor.

Sales at Anheuser-Busch InBev decreased by about $1.5 billion in North America last year amid a tumultuous year for its premier product, Bud Light, the company said Thursday during an earnings report.

A former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice said the ‘highly political lawsuit’ presents the courts with a hypothetical question rather than a reality.

The appeal came just hours after Cook County Judge Tracie Porter issued her decision. She placed a hold on it until Friday to allow the expected appeal.