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O'FALLON, Mo. — O'Fallon, Mo., Police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened Tuesday afternoon, June 30, 2026, on the Winghaven exit ramp from westbound Interstate 64 after what authorities described as an apparent road rage incident between two drivers. The victim has been identified by police as Luke J. Sherman, 35, who was pronounced dead at the scene and who was an O'Fallon, Mo., resident. Officers responded at about 4 p.m. to a 911 call reporting a shooting on the exit

A St. Louis man is facing two felony stealing charges after prosecutors say he stole more than $7,000 worth of electronics from a Target store in Kirkwood on two occasions in June.

At least nine states have passed voting laws this year that will make it more difficult for some voters to cast their ballots during the midterm elections in November. Lawmakers in Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia passed laws between January and May of this year restricting access […]

The Planned Parenthood clinic in Gladstone began offering medication abortion on Wednesday, becoming the fourth location in Missouri to open appointments following a court ruling that expanded access to medication abortion for the first time since 2018. This is the first time the suburban Kansas City clinic has ever offered medication abortions. Planned Parenthood officials […]

Officials have issued a 48-hour boil advisory for some individuals near the City of Troy, Missouri.

St. Louis police are asking for the public's help to find a woman who went missing nearly five months ago.

A donated copy of Paul McCartney’s 1976 book In His Own Words turned out to be a lucky find for a charity shop in the U.K.The BBC reports that the…

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ALTON – A local man previously convicted of fleeing police was recently charged with the same offense after allegedly leading Alton officers on two high-speed chases in one day. David A. Hallstead, 39, of Godfrey, was charged on June 24, 2026 with three Class 3 felony counts of aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer, as well as a Class A misdemeanor count of driving on a revoked license. Hallstead allegedly knowingly attempted to flee from an Alton Police officer on tw

A man fired a crossbow and a BB gun at a passing car earlier this week in Jefferson County, then bit a responding deputy in the knee during his arrest, according to newly-filed criminal charges.

ALTON - The Alton Police Department has named Detective Lee Bazzell its Officer of the Month for April 2026 after his work on a shooting investigation helped lead to the arrest and charging of two suspects within days, according to the department. In April 2026, Bazzell responded to assist in the investigation of a shooting that left a 21-year-old victim with life-threatening injuries. During the investigation, he did not accept that a nearby surveillance system had failed to capture

On July 4 last year, the Fire Department responded to calls for 140 fires, including at homes, vehicles and dumpsters. Of those, 57 were in dumpsters

Your electric bills could rise next year. Ameren Missouri is asking state regulators to approve a base rate increase that would cost the average customer an extra $13 per month.

Items from the David Bowie archive went on display in September at the David Bowie Center, part of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Now the V&A has announced…

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While we’ve been discussing a bunch of other Supreme Court end-of-term decisions this week, we should also call out two decisions the Supreme Court thankfully decided not to make. These non-decisions continue to help preserve First Amendment speech protections. First, and most importantly, they rejected Alan Dershowitz’s attempt to appeal his laughably embarrassing SLAPP suit […]