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The first issue of the St. Louis Post and Dispatch was published on Dec. 12, 1878. Its front page contained international news, holiday sales - and a crime blog.

The university in 2007 retired Chief Illiniwek after the NCAA found the chief to be “hostile and abusive.”

Columnist Bill McClellan looks at the St. Louis aldermen sentenced for bribery as well as media personalities Dan McLaughlin and Vic Faust and wonders what’s going on.

A St. Louis County police officer shot and killed a man after they say he charged toward officers with a weapon Wednesday evening.

Police are investigating a crash that killed a pedestrian in the Mehlville area Friday evening.

Charl Howard, 49, was arrested Nov. 13, 2018 and charged with stabbing a man 38 times. He says his mental and physical health have deteriorated.

A Thursday evening fire damaged the historic St. Augustine Church, causing a partial collapse and leaving scorch marks on the north St. Louis property.

They were among five staff members charged with low-level felonies after an investigation of alleged abuse at the school.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt accused Gardner of failing to hand over a report about gunshot residue found on a jacket owned by Lamar Johnson.

The field may be clearing for Aldermanic President Megan Green this spring.

Jerry Schlichter’s lawyers got a judge to seal the case brought by former partner shortly after it was filed.

A push to send cash every month to hundreds of city residents struggling to make ends meet won initial approval at the Board of Aldermen Friday.

MARYLAND HEIGHTS — A developer has filed plans to turn a struggling Maryland Heights hotel into apartments, city documents show.

Kansas City-based NorthPoint Development filed plans to build nearly 1.9 million square feet of storage and distribution buildings off Page Avenue.

About 1,350 people are employed at the plant, which produces the Jeep Cherokee.

It's the second conviction tied to an effort to clear a backlog of untested rape kits.

EPA had planned to have its contractors begin new testing this week but the city denied them access to the area because city insurance requirements weren't met.

When it comes to fundraising for the Missouri Historical Society, there is a new earner on the job.

MoDOT is holding off for a day the reopening of the bridge's eastbound span because of rain forecasted for Saturday.

Larry Boone, a finalist for St. Louis police chief, spent more than 30 years with the Norfolk, Virginia, police department. He's a police reform advocate, and he left Norfolk abruptly after a news conference he didn't attend.