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Officers responded to the shooting at 3:34 a.m. near the intersection of Compton Avenue and Potomac Street.

Backers say police are targeting homeless on the issue; an opponent says legalizing such conduct is unhealthy and disrespectful to the rest of the community.

“Democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it,” the vice president said during at 25-minute talk at the Democratic National Committee’s fall meeting.

The first floor of the Railway Exchange Building caught fire Friday afternoon near the corner of Sixth and Olive streets in downtown.

If you or a loved one can no longer live safely at home, assisted living may be the answer.

Jim Wang scored tickets for Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour in Pittsburgh, which he paid $800 for. And since Swift’s concert at Acrisure Stadium was about a four-hour drive from his home in Fulton, Maryland, he'd need overnight accommodations, too.

Riding upon floats bought from Mardi Gras in New Orleans, members rolled their first parade on Oct. 8, 1878.

The PGA WORKS Fellowship gives recent college graduates a first-hand look at everything a career in the $102 billion golf industry can provide.

The 11-story, 207-room AC Hotel will give downtown Clayton 1,323 hotel rooms. The site at 227 S. Central once headquartered the Clayton Police.

Police said it wasn't related to a popular chili cook-off also going on downtown.

The vehicle was dumped in St. Louis County.

The license of a funeral director at a Carlinville funeral home under investigation for its handling of remains has been revoked.

Is our economy doing better or worse? See recent changes in local employment, regional inflation and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in a QuickTrip at 10768 West Florissant Avenue.

Metro said Saturday that it was unable to contact customers who had reserved rides on Saturday and Sunday. The ride service's scheduling system was also unavailable to customers.

Ten bags of chocolate chips were listed for 80 cents. Forty-one bars of soap, for a dime. A bid on 24 cans of Campbell's cream of celery soup was a quarter.

Kirkwood City Council is poised to vote on $12.5 million purchase of building appraised at $3.2 million.

At issue was a 2020 lawsuit by a St. Louis-area resident, a restaurant and a church challenging policies like occupancy limits and mask requirements aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19.

A train on Friday afternoon snagged a low-hanging set of wires, taking out several utility poles in the area of Chouteau Avenue and South First Street in downtown St. Louis.

A dead body was found Friday afternoon in the Mississippi River in East St. Louis.