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In a safe community where people rarely think to lock their doors, a parent’s nightmare became reality for one Wildwood home.

Police say there was an extreme rise in car thefts from Friday through Sunday, with incidents reported at several gas stations and car washes citywide.

There’s hope for residents in their reported sinking homes in Belleville. Underground mining may be responsible for cracking and shifting, which some fear is taking their homes. Illinois has a special insurance fund to help those with such unexpected surprises.

Months after a middle school teacher was accused of being a "holocaust denier," he had a hearing before the school board Monday evening.

Jennifer Davis was working Friday when she received an unexpected message from a stranger. He said her daughter,17, had been in a crash. Davis was told she should come to the scene. The stranger did not go into details.

A new lawsuit has been filed against another caterer related to the recent spread of E. coli, but this one is in St. Charles County.

Two teenagers are facing first-degree robbery charges after robbing a man at gunpoint for a pair of shoes.

At this past weekend’s Cabinet in Community meeting, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced a bill would be introduced in the Board of Aldermen outlining a spending plan for the Rams/NFL settlement.

Officials with the Evansville/Vanderburgh County Emergency Management Agency in Indiana say seven earthquakes have happened around the New Madrid fault line.

A group with one goal, to create a smoke-free environment for employees in casinos, is working with lawmakers to make that a possibility in Kansas and Missouri.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is asking the FBI to step in and assist in the investigation of a shootout over the weekend.

Eureka firefighters held an important training Monday on how to save family pets.

Missouri business groups have filed a lawsuit to try to stop a voter-approved law that will raise the state’s minimum wage and require employers to give workers paid sick leave. The powerful Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, restaurant and grocers associations say the law violates a state constitutional requirement that ballot measures only address one issue.

Blackjack, Missouri, man who escaped the Jennings City Jail on Sunday afternoon is back in custody – and he has company.

Flying squirrels, found throughout Missouri, can glide through the air at night in the woods and eat nuts, fruits, berries, tree buds, bark, mushrooms, and insects, and are now attracting wildlife enthusiasts with special suet feeders and modified birdhouses.

A recent lawsuit settlement could make Missouri highways safer.

Three women will appear in court next month on charges connected to thefts earlier this year at stores in the South County Center.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A 37-year-old man was arrested by U.S. Marshals last week in connection to the shooting death of a 16-year-old and later charged with first-degree murder.

A man from the Detroit, Michigan, area appeared in federal court on Monday and was sentenced months for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of watches from an Ellisville, Missouri, jewelry store, approximately two months after a co-defendant was sentenced for the same crime.

A Springfield, Missouri, man is accused of stealing ammunition from a Bass Pro Shops in St. Charles and selling it online.