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About 30 area social justice groups are calling for the creation of a reparations commission to study the scope and impact of racial oppression in St. Louis.

Long-delayed work to add an epoxy coating to eastbound lanes of the Blanchette Memorial Bridge is set to begin Sunday night, transportation officials said.

The road collapsed at Ferry Street and Blair Avenue in north St. Louis on Wednesday afternoon after a rainstorm, creating a 40-foot crater.

Before closing its second-biggest coal plant, Ameren wants to run it on a limited basis while completing crucial transmission projects.

Federal authorities have indicted 14 people, including two rappers, in the St. Louis region on allegations they ran a fentanyl distribution ring.

They characterized the committee’s work as political, designed largely to discredit Trump and distract from current vexing economic issues.

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was called in Friday to help solve a homicide that occurred late Thursday outside the Madison Meat Market in Madison.

In suspending medical marijuana facilities, the state noted security camera outages, “pervasive irregularities” in recordkeeping and other issues.

Speaker Michael Madigan quietly greenlighted efforts to kill his own daughter’s legislation as he pressed ComEd to give jobs to two political allies.

A Ferguson man who was shot in St. Louis on Thursday and later died from his injuries has been identified as Darrius Primus, 23.

Charles Lawrence Jr., 46, died in the 8900 block of Newby Street in an overnight shooting, police said.

A passenger in a car died as a result of a crash just before 10:15 p.m. Thursday on eastbound I-70 at Thrush Avenue.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has not appointed a successor and Michael Carvajal remains on the job.

Michael Johnson, 68, paid money to someone he thought was a hitman, but who turned out to be a confidential police informer.

The 8-year-old boy was treated for minor injuries.

The company is cutting back from 116,300 square feet at Watson and South Geyer roads to 72,000 square feet at Interstate 44 and South Highway Drive.

Tappella joins West Community CU; Stehl joins Goelzer Investment Management; Justine Petersen adds Unnerstall as director of finance

A motorcyclist, 21, was killed when he struck the back of a semitrailer on U.S. Highway 67 on Wednesday night.

'If you’re doing recycling and picking up trash less often, that’s not a good tradeoff,' Streets Committee chairwoman Sharon Tyus told Streets Director Betherny Williams.

A former Mizzou fraternity pledge is finally back home — though he is still unable to communicate, walk or even see after a hazing incident last fall.