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Gunshots were reported in the 1200 block of James Patrick Lane in Spanish Lake, Missouri, leaving one man shot.

Operation of a warehouse in Kinloch, Missouri, will transition to a new company, Penske said in a WARN notice on Wednesday.

An Endangered Silver Advisory alert was issued by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) for a 75-year-old man who has dementia.

As the REAL ID deadline looms, Missouri and Illinois residents are rushing to local DMVs, but many are walking away confused, frustrated or empty-handed.

The split among Senate Republicans over a bill allowing Missouri students to enroll in neighboring school districts widened to a chasm they could not bridge Wednesday after the legislation was tied to an obligation to fully fund public education. The state Senate debated the legislation, dubbed “open enrollment,” for five hours, finally setting it aside […]

On Wednesday, a jury found a 61-year-old man guilty of multiple sex crimes involving children.

Operations have been halted at the St. Louis County Animal Control and Adoption Center as the facility responds to a case of canine parvovirus.

A bankruptcy court judge in St. Louis has approved the appointment of a data privacy czar for a potential sale of the genetic testing firm.

The 2025 Loop Trolley season kicks off tomorrow, May 1.

The Chicago Department of Health and Cook County Department of Public Health confirmed two measles cases.

After a car was swept off a Clinton County road by flash flooding, two brothers dropped their boat in a ditch to rescue a woman clinging to brush.

ALTON/GODFREY - A special volunteer was recently recognized for his dedication to keeping the community clean. Robert Lack, age 8, was awarded the Outstanding Citizen Award at the Pride, Inc. Annual Celebration last weekend. Lack has spent the last five years picking up trash every time he takes a walk with his family. “I don’t want the earth to be polluted,” Lack explained. “One day when I was walking with my dad when I was 3 years old, we saw trash and we decided to pick it up. And every time we went for a walk, we would grab our grabbers and a trash bag and start picking up the street.” Pride, Inc. has many beautification initiatives throughout Godfrey and Alton. Pat Stewart, president of Pride, Inc., explained that the organization held their Annual Celebration as a way to recognize community members who go out of their way to improve the Riverbend region. Lack has been on their radar for five years, and Stewart was ecstatic to honor him wit

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement during a Senate Democratic spotlight hearing entitled “Clear and Present Danger: The Trump Administration’s Whitewashing of the January 6th Insurrection.” The witnesses include Harry Dunn, former U.S. Capitol Police Officer, and Daniel Hodges, an 11-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), who were both brutally attacked by the insurrectionist mob on January 6, as well as Mike Romano and Sara Levine, two former prosecutors in the now-disbanded Capitol Siege section within the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. The hearing will focus on honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol; acknowledging the work of the prosecutors who brought the January 6 insurrectionists to justice in the years following the attack; and condemning President Trump’s dangerous

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today participated in a Committee hearing entitled “Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation.” During the hearing, Durbin emphasized the disastrous consequences of the Trump Administration’s desire to slash federal funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), effectively grinding medical research in the U.S. to a halt. Drawing from his family’s own experience , Durbin began his remarks, “If you’ve ever been a parent sitting in a doctor’s office with a baby on your lap and heard those words that were changing about a diagnosis, you knew your life would never be the same.” “The questions that you would ask, I’ve been there, were pretty obvious. Is there a medicine? Is there a surgery? Is there a procedure? If not, is there a clinical trial? We all ask the same questions

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