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Rep. LaKeySha Bosley (D-St Louis) paid tribute to school shooting victims at a candlelight vigil. One of the victims was her former teacher.

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When LaKeySha Bosley approached the stage to speak to a crowd of mourners grieving a school shooting, she wasn't just another politician promising to pass gun control measures. She was grieving her own former teacher. "She was a great teacher," Bosley remembered. "She never gave up on me." Jean Kuczka, a 61-year-old health teacher at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, was one of two victims shot and killed in the Monday morning school shooting. Bosley wiped tears away from her eyes…

Tears streamed down Andre Bell's face when he got the heartbreaking telephone call Monday morning. "It's a nightmare," Bell said. His 15-year-old daughter Alexandria Bell had been shot and killed in her classroom at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in south St. Louis. "My daughter's mother called me and that's how I found out. I didn't initially think the call was real," Bell said. The young girl's father lives in Los Angeles. Hours after the shooting, Alex's father did an exclusive…

Manfret McGhee is the Dean of Arts at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, where his 16-year-old son, Anthony, was shot Monday.

Amid the shooting in St. Louis, Claudia Breuer, 16, told her dad it was a drill, hoping to keep her dad from trying to run in to rescue her.

Jean Kuczka, 61, who taught at St. Louis' Central Visual & Performing Arts High School since 2008, was killed Monday morning at the shooting.

Alexandria Bell, a sophomore, was killed after a former student opened fire inside Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

HARDIN - On Monday, October 24th 2022, the Calhoun County State’s Attorney’s Office filed a 32 count Criminal Information, of which 26 of those charges are felonies, against David P. Robertson, aged 32, of Granite City, Illinois, in reference to an incident which occurred on Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 in Calhoun County, Illinois. In the Criminal Information, Robertson has been charged with the following: Armed Violence (Class X Felony) Residential Burglary Aggravated Possession of a Stolen Vehicle Possession of a Stolen Vehicle 5-18. Unlawful Possession of Weapon by Felon (14 Counts) Possession of a Stolen Firearm Theft ($10,000.00-$100,000.00) Leaving the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Accident Involving Injury Criminal Damage to Property Aggravated Driving Under the Influence Aggravated Fleeing / Attempt to Elude a Peace Officer (21 MPH Over Limit) Aggravated Fleeing / Attempt to Elude a Peace Officer (Causing Bodily Injury) Aggravated Reckless Driving Fleeing

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David Glaser died after falling off his bike and injuring his head Saturday morning near Melrose Road and Highway T.

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The vehicle was parked behind a building on Park Street before it caught fire and flames spread.

Tuesday morning, our hearts are heavy across the region as we cope with a school shooting that leaves both the victims of violence and emotional trauma.

Owned by Nate and Christine Hereford, the rotisserie chicken concept gained a quick following at City Foundry STL.

Prosecution and defense clashed in federal court yesterday over whether or not a Beretta 9mm belonged to a popular St. Louis rapper when he was stopped by police in January of last year. According to federal prosecutors, Arthur Pressley, better known as rapper 30 Deep Grimeyy, had the firearm when St. Louis police pulled him and three other men over on January 5, 2021. Pressley is a convicted felon, making it illegal to have the gun in his possession.

St. Louis police and federal authorities are combing through evidence yielded from searches of the home and car of the gunman in Monday morning’s mass shooting at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in South St. Louis. 

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The St. Louis County Boundary Commission is expected to give final approval on Tuesday to the change.