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Octavius A. Whittaker, 31, was charged Wednesday with rape, kidnapping, sodomy, attempted robbery and several weapons offenses.

The measure awaits one more vote in the Senate before it moves to the House for further deliberations.

Commercial real estate developer GBT Realty Corp. has sold The Shoppes of Mid Rivers for $40.7 million.

The home-goods chain continues to hurtle toward a possible bankruptcy.

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

A St. Louis family has been trying for more than a year to get a woman to stop making racist threats against them at their south city home. She first broke in with a hammer, and has repeatedly harassed them…

Officers responded to shots fired in the 800 block of Surrey Lane.

Mayor Dan Borgmeyer and City Councilman Tom Besselman were the top 2 vote-getters in St. Charles' mayoral primary and advance to the April 4 runoff election.

Officials said Joshua A. Vaughn knew one of the defendants from when he worked at the state Division of Youth Services.

Sales soared to nearly $13 million across Missouri in the first weekend of legal recreational pot.

Missouri on Tuesday executed Leonard Taylor, 58, who was convicted killing his girlfriend and her three children at their home in Jennings.

In their second-to-last meeting before a break that effectively ends their session, aldermen advanced plans to make streets safer, strengthen police oversight and overhaul development policy.

Residents petitioned to remove J. Toni Burrow last fall.

A former Jefferson County municipal prosecutor was sentenced to 18 months in prison Tuesday in a case that included video evidence of him coercing a woman he was prosecuting into sex acts using money and reminders of her pending charges.

Charges accuse a 23-year-old Florissant man of shooting a pizza delivery driver in December.

Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, called for the raises last month, citing a severe recruitment and retention problem. “We must do better,” he said.

People would only get eight weeks of unemployment benefits when the unemployment rate is low.

St. Louis County Council will consider changing its rules Tuesday night for public speakers after years of listening to topics largely unrelated to county business.

Police said they don't suspect foul play.

Mario Pintor is accused of breaking windows with an axe or hammer, then burglarizing the businesses.