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Recent federal data shows a 3% decline in overdose deaths nationwide, but the Rev. Ken McKoy said the crisis in his neighborhood tells a different story.

Christopher Dunn walked out of the Carnahan Courthouse as a free man Tuesday night. Wednesday, he sat down with FOX 2 after spending more than 12,000 days behind bars.

ST. LOUIS -- Elliott Davis is retiring after 45 years at FOX 2. He is sharing the top ten "You Paid For It" investigations. A Metro East councilman with a gun and a mayor going ballistic are the focus of this report. East St. Louis Councilman Delbert Marion is no longer on the city council, [...]

It’s been a decade or so since one of the silliest ways to combat the symptom of a broken copyright system came to be: safe streaming settings in video games. Because of the way licensing works for the musical compositions in video games, and because some games include mainstream music a la Grand Theft Auto, […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has released new information on its continued investigation of the deadly Greyhound bus crash on Interstate 70 in Highland, Illinois, on July 12, 2023.

The head of the St. Chales County government says there needs to be a change in voting at the East West Gateway Council of Governments.

BETHALTO — Emergency responders handled a call to the southbound lanes of Illinois Route-255 at Airline Drive overpass Wednesday night following a motorcycle accident. The Bethalto Fire Department, Bethalto Police Department, and Illinois State Police arrived at the scene to find a motorcycle that had crashed. At least one individual was transported to a nearby hospital, although the extent of the injuries remains unknown. It is also unclear if there were any additional patients involved in the incident. The Bethalto Police Department is currently investigating the accident. Further details are expected to be released as the investigation continues.

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While the sheriff's department was investigating a sexual assault, it said "several other victims" came forward regarding Richard H. Hay.

Records released by Illinois authorities show that two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey in the days leading up to her death.

A tragic scene unfolded early Wednesday morning in East St. Louis, where a triple shooting outside “Da Blitz Sports Bar and Grill” left two men dead and a woman injured.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by an Illinois sheriff's deputy after she called 911 for help, in the days leading up to her death, according to records released Wednesday. In a third call, Massey's mother, [...]

A mysterious hooded man on a moped was released from jail earlier this year after being charged with similar crimes in a different suburb, according to police.

Newly released videos show the timeline of events as they occurred during the Oct. 24, 2022, school shooting.

Raj Chetty and a cast of thousands have a new paper out that looks at economic mobility. In a nutshell, it finds that mobility has increased among Black families and decreased among white families. Similarly, it has increased among the rich and declined among the poor. For more details, the New York Times has a ...continue reading "Rich kids work less than the merely affluent when they grow up"

SPRINGFIELD — Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by a Sangamon County sheriff's deputy after she called 911 for help, had made at least two other emergency response calls in the days leading up to…