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The raise brings the total annual salary to $40,000, with an extra $10,000 for the chair; it will be phased in over the next two County Council elections.

Local police departments are testing a phone alert system that would warn drivers when there is a police chase, traffic stop or other emergency response nearby.

"We need to make sure that we’re living within our fiscal limits within the state of Illinois," Pritzker said, defending cuts to an immigrant health care program.

A former hockey coach at Lindenwood University and youth clubs in the area is accused of sexually abused at least two children, including one on a team he coached, between 2007 and 2021.

The heat index could hit 105 or higher on Thursday and Friday, according to the NWS.

Commuters at the downtown garage have driven around metal shoring for a year. St. Louis officials say a fix is finally coming.

A former inmate at a Missouri prison says the state’s solitary confinement policy discriminates against individuals with HIV and is unconstitutional.

In a move described as “unprecedented,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is trying to overturn the convictions of a Kansas City police officer found guilty of killing a Black man.

The closure, which began Monday morning, was needed to accommodate construction work in the area.

The kids are not named in the lawsuit, but have been identified publicly as Kadan and Brooklyn Rockett, magicians who appeared in 2016 on the NBC series “America’s Got Talent.”

Officials hope to expand the park to include long-closed Ninth Street, tying together the park's two halves.

City Counselor Sheena Hamilton is keeping key records from the public. It’s a troubling pattern for the administration of Mayor Tishaura O. Jones.

An "open house" event will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday in Belleville, followed by a Zoom session from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

The shutdown, starting at 9 p.m., will occur Wednesday and Thursday and on July 5-7. The nearby Hawks Nest Drive bridge will close overnight Monday and Tuesday.

A fifth of the nation’s congressmen, living presidents, Supreme Court justices and governors are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, Reuters found.

Bishop Richard Stika is a St. Louis native who was ordained in 1985 by Archbishop John L. May at the Cathedral Basilica

Content by Electro Savings Credit Union. Jim Struble, CEO of Electro Savings Credit Union, developed Culture University as a training model so all employees could learn and participate in shaping a vibrant workplace.

Two people were killed and another was injured Monday night in a shooting in the 4300 block of Gibson Avenue.

The judge said the rapidly moving appeal before the Missouri Supreme Court gave him confidence that the time-sensitive case is moving as quickly as possible.

A new federal rule, which took effect May 1, appears to shift the burden of some mortgage fees from high-risk to low-risk borrowers.