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"We deserve better," Mayor Tishaura O. Jones wrote in a tweet.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, condemned the incident, saying “the violent rhetoric and division we’re seeing across our country is unacceptable.”

Jack Coatar’s allies, including former Mayor Francis Slay and former Gov. Jay Nixon, say it’s time to get back to basics, and that Coatar’s the right man to do it.

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.

The shooting happened in the 4700 block of Greer Avenue, police say.

The Chesterfield City Council has final say on whether to approve the $353 million tax increment financing plan that would add thousands of apartments and townhomes and numerous shops.

Owners of property keep pitching an idea that won't float on the Mississippi River.

Drought-related risks and impacts are especially pronounced in certain industries and communities that rely on the river for shipping and transit.

A minority partner in the Lambert Airport contract is a big donor to St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones.

In Illinois, residents of St. Clair County can now apply for federal aid at one of two disaster recovery centers that opened Oct. 28.

Tammy Townsend, 55, was charged with second-degree murder after police responded to her home and found her husband shot in the head, police said.

Gregory Ortlip, 67, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for soliciting child pornography from teenage girls.

Two boys, 14 and 16, were shot Monday afternoon after stealing a woman's car from her home in north St. Louis, police said.

Daeshawn N. Sloan, 26, sent hostile messages to the mother of his children, the mother's attorney, and the judge presiding over their child custody case, police wrote in a probable cause statement.

Trevor, 84, and Venn, 83, both began their careers in the early 1960s in Gaslight Square, the venerable entertainment district in midtown St. Louis.

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court put the law license of one of the founders of a St. Louis public interest law firm on probation Tuesday.

"We've never had a deputy actually get robbed. We've never had anyone this bold. This again, we're in St. Louis. ... This scares me," Betts said.

Nearly 150 Missouri military veterans died by suicide last year.

A St. Louis jury awarded $6 million on Monday to the family of a woman who died of mesothelioma in 2019 after working at manufacturing centers in southwest Missouri.