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Before the rainfall began, De Soto city manager Todd Melkus said the city was prepared to notify residents of evacuations, if necessary.

Willie Hedden, 43, a former sergeant at the Western Illinois Correctional Center in Mt. Sterling, Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday to six years’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, according to a news release.

It was a person living in an Overland Park home who made the decision to call police about the dead body they'd been living with for six years.

Crews are preparing for the potential impact of heavy rain and rising water. The University City Fire Department is staying on top of the weather with a new flood warning system.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to contact the Maryland Heights Police Department.

Missouri youths no longer could receive gender-affirming treatments under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate.

The St. Louis County Council is considering some revisions to its "Clean Air Code" that would prevent people from smoking marijuana at county parks.

ST. LOUIS -- Absentee voting is underway for the April 4, 2023, election in Missouri and Illinois. The deadline to register to vote in Missouri was March 8. Registered voters may cast a ballot at several polling places in person before election day. You will need an ID to cast a ballot in the Show-Me-State. [...]

A St. Louis man was sentenced to five years in prison over a crash that led to the death of a teenage girl in 2018.

Senate appropriations chief floating bond-funded plan to beef up Interstate 70 project to add new lanes across the state.

A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local health system or missing out on millions in unpaid wages and benefits.

Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill last year ditching the presidential primary in favor of a caucus system.

Missouri Republicans are making a push to allow firearms to be carried inside religious establishments and lessen restrictions on access to firearms.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an online form for reports of questionable gender transition interventions.

A Webster Groves man was charged earlier this month amid allegations of raping a child.

Large tracts of the St. Louis metro area are awash in air pollutants 30 times smaller in diameter than a single human hair.

Lars Nootbaar returned to St. Louis Cardinals spring camp Thursday not only with a World Baseball Classic title, but a friendship that has some holding hope the franchise could eventually land a baseball sensation.

Several inches of rain are likely by sunrise Friday, resulting in flooding of rural roads, poorly drained urban areas, low water crossings and some creeks and streams.

ST. LOUIS -- Thursday is National Puppy Day and there are a lot of people excited about sharing pics of their pets. We asked viewers to share their pics with us on Facebook and were overwhelmed with responses. This gallery has many pet pictures from FOX 2 viewers.

Jana Elementary School is expected to close for good, several months after concerns resurfaced over radioactive contamination around the school.