A man was charged with murder and other charges in connection with the death of a 3-year-old boy who was struck by gunfire last weekend in East St. Louis.
An inmate at the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis stabbed a jail guard in the face with some kind of knife midday Friday, the St. Louis sheriff said.
Spencer, who captured 48% of the vote in the 2021 mayoral election, had been seen as a potential contender for the citywide job vacated this month by longtime president Lewis Reed.
Firefighters rescued one elderly woman from an apartment as they fought a three-alarm blaze that damaged businesses and apartments in the Central West End.
Dan Bryan is on a mission to play catch with a different person every day for a year in memory of his son Ethan. Next up: First pitch at Friday's Cardinals game.
The events follow a Post-Dispatch report that that the county failed to produce key records on the the death of Drexel Starks, who died two days after he was booked into the jail.
Ameren plans to build a large new power plant that runs on natural gas β even as the climate warms and as the utility aims to reach carbon neutrality.