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On Friday, St. Louis County Judge John Lasater sentenced Dejoie, 50, to life in prison, calling text messages Dejoie sent to Mitchell and at least one other woman "disturbing."

Stephen and Emily Savage are in the beginning stages of construction for Cottle Village, an upcoming development that will consist of a restaurant and bar, distillery and outdoor stage.

A 4-year-old in Ballwin has developed a taste for cicadas.

About 70 pharmacists and advocates gathered outside Express Scripts headquarters Friday, voicing wide-ranging complaints about the company and its peers.

Dana Gan, of High Ridge, found them. She looked through a window and saw them on the couch dead. Police haven't said if they found a suicide note.

Effort to ban child marriage in Missouri also fails as time runs out.

Business chamber Greater St. Louis Inc. will work with the city's development agency to address deteriorating conditions at the Railway Exchange building and the Millennium Hotel.

The proposal would raise penalties for celebratory gunfire.

Bills sent to the governor include an education package expanding Missouri’s school voucher program and a prohibition on Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.

The proposal was approved last year, but counties said the plan needed more work.

The school says a resolution proposed by Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier inaccurately describes an April 27 protest as peaceful.

Trishawn Jones, now 20, was one of four teenagers who pleaded guilty to federal charges in the robbery and fatal shooting of Dewight Price in April 2022 in Hazelwood.

They’re the first women to receive degrees through the program, which graduated its first class in a men’s prison in 2019.

Teachers at the charter school will decide whether to remove the teachers’ union after more than a year of stalled contract negotiations.

Nasheed serves on the Missouri Parole Board.

David Hosier, 69, is scheduled to be put to death June 11 for killing a Jefferson City couple, Angela and Rodney Gilpin, in 2009.

Content by Barter Theatre. Produced by Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the 2024 opera festival at Webster University welcomes a month and a half of classical performances featuring some of the world’s most seasoned tenors.

Content by Soldiers Memorial Military Museum. Soldiers Memorial shares the history of St. Louis’ contributions to national defense since the Revolutionary War through today.

Jones, first elected in 2021, is the first major candidate to announce plans to run for the city’s top job next year.

The court upheld the closures of St. Francis of Assisi parish in Franklin County and St. Catherine of Alexandria in Ste. Genevieve County.