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The fatal crash happened after police said a Jeep Cherokee driving down Olive Street “at a high rate of speed” started a chain reaction that killed a mother and daughter.

Terry Briggs, the mayor of Bridgeton since 2015, died unexpectedly Wednesday, the city announced.

A person was injured after being shot at by an officer from the U.S. Marshals Service and injured on Wednesday, just hours after an off-duty city police officer was hit by gunfire.

A man was shot and killed Wednesday night in the Mark Twain I-70 Industrial neighborhood in north city.

On Feb. 15, 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in a plane crash Belgium.

Webb City man will be on November ballot, likely facing GOP incumbent Josh Hawley and Democratic challenger Lucas Kunce in the race for U.S. Senate.

Hosier is scheduled to die by injection at 6 p.m. June 11 at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

A shooting in Kansas City as fans celebrated the Chiefs Super Bowl win left one person dead and as many as 15 injured.

A 15-year-old girl is the fifth person charged with the robbery and murder of a man near a MetroLink station here last summer.

Ra’niya Steward was standing on a porch in the 900 block of Highland Avenue on the afternoon of Feb. 3 when she was shot.

Kurt Wallace was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in federal prison for committing a series of violent carjackings and escaping from jail.

The U.S. Army Reserve Command said Wednesday that Lt. Col. Troy E. Bartley of Alton, died Sunday at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. His exact cause of death remained under review.

Boston Celtics power forward Jayson Tatum announced Tuesday a gift of $1 million from the financial services company SoFi to his nonprofit.

Cities in both St. Charles and St. Louis counties are urging state lawmakers against any of at least six bills to exempt food from state and local sales taxes.

A 17-year-old boy was shot Wednesday morning in the city's Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.

Police on Wednesday identified the 35-year-old man who was found dead Monday morning inside a home in the city's Carondelet neighborhood, in deep south St. Louis.

Hundreds of workers are missing across the police, fire, water and jail departments. Divisions responsible for parks, trash pickup and traffic control are struggling, too.

Some worry it could discourage businesses from locating in the city.

"You're like a villain out of a movie that is made to terrorize a smaller town," the judge said to Matthew Skaggs, 40.

The high court sided with a previous ruling that lawmakers cannot use the budgeting process to block Medicaid funding to the health provider.