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FBI St. Louis and the Missouri State Highway Patrol are issuing school safety reminders as students across Missouri prepare to begin the new school year.

School started Monday, but many parents are saying the district still won’t say when their children can attend.

For 55 years, a southern Illinois gravesite held a mystery: the identity of an unidentified victim of a deadly 1971 train derailment. Now, the mystery has been solved.

An auction for a rare Patrick Mahomes rookie season trading card is expected to end Saturday. Many are anticipating high numbers for the future hall of famers card.

We’re not going to do a full rehash of the whole Reckless Ben / Bryan Mansell / Bricks & Minifigs saga here. We’ve already got a bunch of stories on it, and there are many other sources. But there is some news in the form of Bricks & Minifigs (BAM) “settling” with Mansell — and […]

JERSEYVILLE – A day of remembrance for those who lost a family member during their military service will be held later this fall following city approval of an official proclamation and related road closures. At their Aug. 18, 2026 meeting, Jerseyville City Council members unanimously approved a request from Greg Breden, superintendent of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Jersey County, regarding a proclamation and road closures related to this year’s Gold Star Mothers and Families

WASHINGTON — Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of the second Trump administration after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shifted the Department of Homeland Security’s criminal investigations arm to conducting immigration enforcement, according to a report government investigators published Friday.  Agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a subagency of DHS’s Immigration and Customs […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump can continue building a White House ballroom for now, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday, reversing a federal judge’s order that barred above-ground construction on the grounds of the former East Wing. The one-page order from Chief Justice John Roberts allows the justices more time to consider the legal arguments as […]

ST. LOUIS - A man in his 30s died after a shooting late Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in the Fairgrounds neighborhood in St. Louis, where District 6 officers responded to the 4100 block of North Grand after a call for a shooting, police said. Officers arrived around 10:20 p.m. and found the man on Penrose beneath an older brown F-150. He was conscious and breathing and had suffered a gunshot wound. EMS took the man to a hospital for life-saving treatment, but he later died. Homicide detectives wer

The Grand Chess Tour finals started in the Central West End on Saturday.

Sean Gipson, 29, of Hazelwood, Missouri, has been charged with one count of unlawful possession of a firearm. He was in custody Friday on a $250,000 cash-only bond.