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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday notified congressional leaders that her office will begin to implement “extraordinary measures” to keep the U.S. government from defaulting on its debt. The nation’s debt climbed to more than $31.4 trillion this week, federal financial data shows, crossing the threshold set by Congress when it last raised the nation’s borrowing limit more [...]

Possible future improvements to Interstate 64 in the city of St. Louis were laid out at a MoDOT open house. MoDOT’s focus is on the central corridor of I-64 between Jefferson and Kingshighway Streets.

Florissant police are crediting a minor traffic stop with uncovering a large, cross-country identity theft operation.

Stray Rescue of St. Louis is asking for the public's help after their new facility was broken into while under construction, costing them roughly $100,000 in material and repairs.

Days after the City of St. Louis ordered the site of the old Famous-Barr department store boarded up, FOX 2 caught looters stealing from the building through new holes in the boards.

A more than 50-year-old barn in Shiloh, Illinois, burned to the ground Wednesday morning, killing five goats.

Five inmates are still on the run after escaping the St. Francois Detention Center on Tuesday night.

Five inmates are on the run after escaping the St. Francois County Jail, and now a manhunt is underway.

The westbound lanes of Interstate 70 reopened to drivers on Wednesday at noon. Those lanes were shut down around 10:45 p.m. Tuesday after officers shot and killed a suspect.

Legal challenges to Illinois' semiautomatic weapons ban began Wednesday with a federal complaint that the 8-day-old law prohibits “commonly possessed” and constitutionally protected guns.

Several people were sent to the hospital on Wednesday after overdosing at the Graham Correction Center in Hillsboro, Illinois.

Former St. Louis Rams head coach Mike Martz and FOX 2 Sports director Martin Kilcoyne are teaming up for a charity event next week.

Major updates to Interstate 70 in Missouri were announced during Gov. Mike Parson's State of the State address on Wednesday.

An 18-year-old from East St. Louis, Illinois, was arrested Wednesday for his alleged involvement in carjacking a uniformed St. Louis Sheriff's deputy last November.

One person was arrested, and another person is wanted for questioning after a shooting Tuesday evening in Mount Vernon, Illinois.

Police are investigating a shooting Wednesday afternoon along an Interstate 70 ramp near Jennings.

A man and woman from southern Illinois were sentenced this week after admitting to identity theft and bank fraud.

A man from Sauget, Illinois, has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting in south St. Louis earlier this month.

There's a bit of uncertainty surrounding one of the largest sources of revenue for the St. Louis Cardinals, and perhaps the chain effect that could follow.

Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department have identified one of three victims who were gunned down during a two-hour span Monday evening.