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A Metro East school district gave its students and families a fun way to announce Wednesday’s snow day—via a song.

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago Democrat who once set much of Illinois’ political agenda as the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history was convicted of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud Wednesday in a split verdict in his high-profile corruption trial. In a packed courtroom, jurors convicted former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan of 10 counts [...]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has decided to delay work on a $1.2 billion project meant to prevent invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes out of concerns that the Trump administration won't pay the federal government's share of the costs. Illinois, Michigan and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been planning to install a gauntlet of technologies in the Des Plaines River near Joliet, Illinois, to deter approaching fish.

The St. Louis Board of Estimate and Apportionment is holding a special meeting Wednesday evening.

Spring training has arrived for the St. Louis Cardinals, but despite the spoken word of an organizational "reset" focused on cutting costs and embracing a youth movement, the projected big-league roster looks largely unchanged from last year.

An 18-year-old has been charged with murdering a man behind a Mobile gas station in the city's Fairgrounds neighborhood.

Investigators with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department say a Louis Vuitton bag helped them connect an 18-year-old to a shooting last month in the city's Baden neighborhood.

A warrant is out for an O'Fallon, Missouri, woman's arrest for falsely statingshe and her children had been kidnapped, triggering an Amber Alert.

Missouri schools may call for snow days on Wednesday and Thursday this week, following a major January snowstorm that shut down some districts for an entire week. As snow days pile up, some schools could be scrambling to make up lost time to meet state requirements.

A judge signed a pair of arrest warrants for a mother and grandmother for the 2023 overdose death of a 5-month-old girl.

Runway 11-29 at St. Louis Lambert International Airport was closed late Wednesday morning after a United Airlines regional jet slid off the taxiway just after landing.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A $10 million settlement between county officials in Springfield, Illinois, and the family of Sonya Massey is the “first step in getting full justice” for the Black woman fatally shot in her home last summer by a sheriff's deputy, lawyers said Wednesday. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump told reporters the settlement, [...]

A suspected serial rapist from Ballwin is in police custody. But detectives with the St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons believe there may be more victims out there.

Check your old lottery tickets! There are four Illinois Lottery prizes worth at least $1 million, including one valued at $10 million, that are currently unclaimed.

Around 11 a.m. Wednesday, the jury began to read the decision on the counts.

A man faces felony charges in a St. Louis murder case, nearly two months after the victim was fatally shot near an abandoned house.

More snow is on the way in the St. Louis region. For much of Wednesday and Thursday, snowplows will likely stay busy working to clear the roads.

Emergency officials are warning of a possible HAZMAT situation on Highway 61 in Lincoln County after a vehicle fire Wednesday morning on Highway 61.

MODOT and IDOT crews are pre-treating roads as winter weather is expected to impact driving conditions throughout the area, with more than 1,800 trucks and other equipment ready to respond.

A storm system will bring a fast hit of a wintry mix to the St. Louis region on Wednesday, with travel impacts starting late morning and continuing through the afternoon commute, and expected snow totals ranging from 1 to 5 inches.