Should BJC HealthCare make good on its plan to combine with the Kansas City-based St. Luke's Health System, it would mark the largest local hospital merger in recent memory.
A man fleeing police on Tuesday with a gun and drugs ran into a random St. Louis apartment and ordered an 11-year-old and 16-year-old to keep quiet until he eventually surrendered, police said.
Longtime prosecutor Mary Pat Carl is returning to St. Louis to lead new Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore's homicide team. Carl ran unsuccessfully against Kim Gardner in 2016 and again in 2020.
A jury on Thursday found a Metro East man guilty of murdering his fiancee on a Pontoon Beach highway, rejecting the man's claim that he accidentally ran her over when his foot got stuck on his truck's gas pedal.
The program, begun in 2021 in St. Clair County and expanded last year to Missouri, is part of Metro Transit's overall effort to improve security on the light rail line.