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According to St. Louis Police, there have been more than 2,000 reports of car break-ins downtown St. Louis this year.

The victims have been identified as Angela Kabugu and Nelson Paul.

A new book that tells the story of the making of Pink Floyd's 1977 concept album Animals and the tours in support of the record will be released on August…

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The pool of candidates to become St. Louis’ next police chief just got deeper. The Personnel Division posted a job description for the city’s next top cop Tuesday afternoon. It reads, in part, “Applicants must currently have at least 10 years of increasingly responsible professional policing experience, including five years of patrol operations, administrative, or investigative responsibility at the rank of Police Commander or higher. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and…

AAA predicts 5% more people in Missouri will travel this holiday weekend than in 2021.

ALTON - Alton Deputy Police Chief Jarrett Ford today announced there are charges after a report last week on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, of gunshots and a subsequent traffic crash in the area of the Clark Bridge. "Today, the Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office reviewed the facts of the investigation and authorized a criminal charge of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm against Jerone C. Hornbeak, 23, of St. Louis," Ford said. "Hornbeak is in custody at the Alton Jail." Ford continued: "Officers responded and located a vehicle that left the roadway and struck a tree on the southwest end of the Clark Bridge in Missouri. The driver of the vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the traffic crash and was transported to a St. Louis area hospital. "Information gathered at the scene suggested the incident to have started as an apparent road rage incident involving two vehicles. Evidence of gunshots being fired was located on the Illinois side o

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Jurors reached a verdict Tuesday in a lawsuit by a woman who says Bill Cosby sexually abused her at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.

You may recall that, last fall, we wrote about a truly bizarre legal fight, in which a little-followed pseudonymous Twitter account @CallMeMoneyBags had tweeted out some images of a woman, suggesting a few times that the woman was the mistress of billionaire Brian Sheth. The account put out lots of tweets generally mocking people in […]

Thomas Cullerton was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for taking hundreds of thousands for a no-show Teamsters job.

BETHALTO - The Bethalto Police Department announced on Tuesday afternoon it needs the public's help in identifying a person of interest after a theft attempt at Ace Hardware on Monday, June 20, 2022. "The subject reportedly attempted to steal a lawn mower from Ace Hardware at approximately 1:10 p.m. on June 20, 2022," Bethalto Police Chief Mike Dixon said. "He entered the parking lot from the west and fled the parking lot eastbound on Illinois Route 140. "He was driving the green in color Dodge Caravan in the images. He is a person of interest at this point and has not been charged with a crime. "Anyone with information on his identity is asked to contact the Bethalto Police Department at 618-377-5266 ext. 1, or message the department on Facebook." It is important to remember the subject in the images is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Office space in Clayton is filling up for the first time in the pandemic. In downtown St. Louis, meanwhile, vacancy is rising, up over a year ago.

Thanks to a $10,000 donation, CrimeStoppers is offering rewards for information leading to arrests in cases of car break-ins in downtown St. Louis.

The discovery was made late Monday night in the Silver Creek nature preserve.

The $21 million expansion of the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will quadruple the space of the previous facility.

The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis was investigating Monday after an 18-year-old man was shot and killed in Pine Lawn.

A woman faces criminal charges after an assault on another woman who was walking her dog over the weekend in Kirkwood.

Summer is here, and live music is back! Join us every Tuesday evening through August 30 for a great mix of live music while you

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EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville’s Alicia Diaz is following a family line with her major in the prestigious University of Arizona College of Engineering. Alicia finished on the Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters. Her father, Jon, is a retired engineer. Roberto Diaz, her grandfather, and Octavio Diaz, her great-grandfather, were also engineers. Roberto and Octavio were both from Chile and moved to the United States in 1955. Alicia is the daughter of Sue and Jon Diaz of Edwardsville. She just recently completed her freshman year at the University of Arizona. Alicia is home for the summer and is also an active motorcyclist. This summer she is involved at SIUE as an instructor for motorcycles. Sue Diaz said her husband received his degree from Washington State University. Sue said she believes Alicia and the other students from Edwardsville School District 7 receive a strong education. "Alicia was prepared for college because of her high school education,”

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Around the country, these thefts have jumped more than 1,200 percent since 2019, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.