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A Washington County mom remains haunted by her son’s last text message – “help me please.” That text is now the key piece of evidence charging a man with murder.

Robert Tebbe, executive director of enrollment development and institutional planning at Southwestern Illinois College (SWIC), is excited about the Illinois budget approved by lawmakers and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker Tuesday.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- The St. Louis County Council voted to approve the county’s share of the convention center expansion and $40 million for the new north St. Louis County recreation center.

A 9-year-old boy had to get his finger amputated after falling inside of Bristol Elementary School in Webster Groves Monday.

St. Louis Mayor, Tishaura Jones, addressed the city in her first “State of the City” Tuesday night at Harris Stowe State University. The address was celebrated as the city's first in decades.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis announced its plan to transform an over 100-year-old building into an entrepreneurship and women's business center.

Dierbergs broke ground Tuesday on a new store at the site of the old Crestwood Mall.

A group of attorneys, including prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, announced filing two new lawsuits on behalf of the victims of a deadly Amazon warehouse collapse in Edwardsville.

CHICAGO, Ill. (WMBD) -- Masks are off in Illinois for those using public transportation. Gov. JB Pritzker made the announcement Tuesday, citing the federal mask mandate lift that no longer requires those using public transportation to wear a mask. In Illinois, masks will no longer be required on public transit, in public transit hubs, or [...]

The new strike force will aim to target cartels and criminal organizations operationally and financially by increasing collaboration, improving intelligence, investing in analysis, combating human smuggling, and stopping drug flow among each of the participating states.

A $10,000 ransom was being demanded for a missing 17-year-old girl in Arkansas, officials said.

Police are asking the public to help find two missing teens that ran away together in a stolen car. They believe that Dakota Price, 16, and Anthony Lorffle, 15, may have traveled outside of Lincoln County.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft report to reduce the threat of flooding in University City and Overland. The study has been in progress over the past few years and will be complete in April 2023. After the study is complete then it can use federal funds [...]

You will see more officers patrolling Highway 61 north of Wentzville during National Distracted Driver Awareness Month.

Two suspects are charged in the shooting death of a 47-year-old man in rural Warrensburg over the weekend.

Here are the top 10 and bottom 10 places to make a love connection.

Beginning Monday, April 25, people in and around Maryland Heights can order takeout from Gioia's Deli in their neck of the woods

The shopping center opened as Crestwood Plaza in 1957 before becoming an enclosed mall in 1984. The mall closed in 2013 and was demolished in 2017.

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis Lambert International Airport announced Tuesday it will no longer enforce the federal mask mandate. This comes after the Transportation Security Administration announced that it is no longer enforcing a mask mandate for travel after a federal judge struck down the mandate extension on Monday. Lambert said face masks are no [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - An Endangered Silver Advisory was issued Tuesday morning for a missing 64-year-old man. Police said Cartry Hubbard has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and Diabetes. At about 5 a.m., he "left the facility he was staying at through an emergency exit and is not familiar with the area," according to police. [...]