The St. Louis regions faces various severe weather threats Friday, with thunderstorms, large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes all possible, into the evening.
St. Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer has an $88,000 to $12,000 fundraising advantage over City Councilman Tom Besselman, his opponent in Tuesday's election.
The ramp from eastbound Highway 40 (Interstate 64) to northbound Interstate 270 will shut down much of this weekend to allow for rehab work. Motorists also will encounter lane closures on both sides of 270 near 40/64.
Prosecutors dismissed charges against a former Berkeley mayor and in return the 84-year-old councilman agreed to not seek re-election or any other public office.
St. Louis police received 2,677 reports of stolen vehicles in St. Louis during a three-month peak last summer. During that time, only 23 adults were charged with car theft-related crimes, according to a Post-Dispatch analysis.
By Dana Rieck and Erin Heffernan St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Nowadays it would be treated as snowmageddon. But the heaviest snowstorm St. Louis has ever recorded did not even make front-page news on March 31, 1890.