ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - A federal judge has sentenced a former second-in-command Bank of O’Fallon executive to several years behind bars in connection with a $2 million check-kiting fraud scheme. Andrew Blassie, 70, was sentenced to five months and three years in prison on Thursday and also ordered to pay nearly $2.5 million in [...]
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has launched a Strategic Traffic Operations and Rapid Mobilization (STORM) team, a specialized unit focusing on crime and traffic enforcement.
They hit fast, and they can hit hard. Pop-up storms, sometimes called “pulse storms,” can unleash powerful downburst winds with little if any advance warning. They’ve been a common theme around St. Louis this summer.
The Great Forest Park Balloon Race has been cancelled Saturday due to weather concerns, with wet and stormy conditions likely through the evening hours.
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, the first phase of the TikTok fight resolved with Oracle getting a lucrative hosting deal instead of buying the company in a deal driven by Trump-world insiders, while a court refused to block Trump’s executive order. At the same time, users were fighting to block the less-discussed part […]
Dozens of Charlie Kirk supporters, wearing white shirts, lined Piasa Street, while dozens of people protesting President Donald Trump were across East Broadway.
ST. LOUIS - A woman seriously injured in a crash involving a City of St. Louis worker two years ago was recently awarded more than $500,000 in a lawsuit, though the city is now appealing the verdict. On July 16, a jury returned a $1.16 million verdict in favor of Tara Straussner, though the city's [...]
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