A Missouri city will pay nearly $3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it and six other St. Louis suburbs of violating the constitutional rights of residents by jailing them and forcing them to pay fees, often for minor traffic violations.
ST. LOUIS - Between Thanksgiving and New Year, residential waste increases by 25%. As the Christmas season winds down, the City of St. Louis Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Department is offering locations throughout the city to take your live Christmas trees to be properly recycled. “Once they’re dropped off into the yard waste, which is [...]
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man charged with murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an October attack on a Palestinian American mother and her young son appeared at a pretrial hearing Wednesday as community members gathered outside the courthouse in support of the child's family. Joseph Czuba, 71, is accused of fatally [...]
Valley Meats, LLC, based out of Illinois, has recalled 6,768 pounds of raw ground beef products after a third-party test confirmed the presence of E. coli in samples of the meat.
Missouri's five-month annual legislative session began Wednesday, and top Republican leaders say passing more laws directed at LBGTQ+ people is not a priority.
CHICAGO, Ill., - Attorney General Kwame Raoul has urged locals in Illinois to avoid scams over the phone that could mimic the voice of a loved one via artificial intelligence. A new ploy has developed that allows scammers to mimic the voice of a target’s family member, which results in the target sending payments or [...]
The plan to expand cell phone service is currently in the works. The Department of Economic Development (DED) announced Wednesday that they were granted $7.9 million in the second phase of the 'Cell Towers Grant Program.'
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A vehicle appears to have crashed near the MetroLink crossing on Martin Luther King Drive in East St. Louis on Wednesday morning. Light rail service is disrupted between the 5th & Missouri and Emerson Park stations. The car hit the train. The driver says that his brakes went out before [...]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A St. Louis County judge ordered to reduce the bond of a man accused of firing shots during a Kirkwood trunk-or-treat event last year. The bond of Matthew McCulloch, 39, was cut in half from $500,000 to $250,000 on Tuesday, per Missouri court records, potentially making it easier for him to [...]