FOX 2 📺

St. Louis voters decided to renew a long-standing 1% earnings tax for anyone who lives or works in the city.

MACOUPIN COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) -- A Macoupin County man was arrested earlier this month and is now facing charges for possessing and sharing child sexual abuse materials. Illinois State Police searched 48-year-old James Barnard's home on April 1. He was taken into custody on-scene, in the 200 block of North Harrison Street in Girard. Special [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Polls are now closed in Missouri’s April 2026 municipal elections. Voters across the St. Louis region weighed in on mayoral races, city council and school board seats, and multiple tax and funding measures. This page will be updated with results by municipality and county as they are reported and confirmed by local [...]

A Kansas City woman convicted of two felonies said she was defending herself during a violent confrontation.

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed three bills into law Tuesday afternoon.

The city of Alton is weighing a proposal to reduce its financial contribution to the Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau, a move city officials say requires further review before any decision is made.

A judge this month denied a new trial after a recent multi-million-dollar jury verdict involving a 2019 hospital assault. A former housekeeper reported being attacked by a mental health patient inside the behavioral health unit of SSM DePaul Hospital. It wasn’t just the one worker who claimed it.

Two St. Louis County men have been ordered to appear in court next month after being arrested for stunt driving in a street takeover this past weekend.

Two St. Louis-area restaurants are getting national attention with a visit from The Drew Barrymore Show.

President Trump said Tuesday that he would “suspend” an escalation of attacks on Iran for two weeks as long as Iran agrees to open the Strait of Hormuz. In a Truth Social post less than two hours before his 8 p.m. EDT deadline for Iran to make a deal to open the strait, the president [...]

Controlled explosions shook homes south of Troy, Illinois, on Tuesday as authorities continued investigating a deadly house blast earlier this week.

Ivan Kuckuk, 25, of Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested for methamphetamine trafficking after Illinois State Police allegedly found 99.7 pounds of methamphetamine in his vehicle during a traffic stop on Interstate 74 near Bloomington.

A cargo plane crashed just minutes after takeoff from the Spirit of St. Louis Airport last month and killed the pilot after an apparent attempt to return to the runway, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

St. Louis County investigators have identified a man shot to death Monday afternoon just outside Bel-Ridge.

One person suffered minor injuries after crashing their vehicle into a home along Telegraph Road in Mehlville.

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 1908 into law, allowing state courts to grant divorces and legal separations while a spouse is pregnant, overturning a 1973 judicial practice.

Two St. Louis fentanyl dealers who worked together have each been sentenced to more than a decade in federal prison.

Illinois lawmakers have rewritten House Bill 1429 to focus on local enforcement standards for regulating unsheltered homelessness, prohibiting fines and arrests for life-sustaining activities on public property unless there is an imminent risk to public safety.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department dispelled a rumor regarding photos and video circulating social media Tuesday morning.

Preston Randall, 62, pleaded guilty to obtaining over $630,000 in disability and pandemic loan fraud, after falsely inflating revenue and workforce figures in his applications to the U.S. Small Business Administration.