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Engineering students spanning the globe rolled through parts of Illinois and Missouri Tuesday with their sights set on the top prize in a solar-powered car competition.

Industrial accident at Alton Steel claims life of Pennsylvania man ALTON, Ill. – The Madison County Coroner’s Office has released a preliminary cause of death for a Pennsylvania man who died last week at the former Alton Steel. Coroner Nicholas P. Novacich’s autopsy says Andrew J. Bengel died of a blunt chest and abdomen trauma. [...]

The Madison County coroner's office said the July 20 accident was during salvage work at the plant, which shut down in January.

A section of Highway K in O'Fallon, Mo., buckled due to excessive days of extreme heat. The Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) is making repairs to the roadway today.

One of three brothers charged in a nearly 27-year-old murder case makes his first appearance in court on a first-degree murder charge.

He also starred in "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," about a male prostitute, and starred in a Netflix stand-up comedy special titled "Asian Momma, Mexican kids."

ALTON - Madison County Coroner Nicholas P. Novacich on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, identified a 56-year-old Waterford, Pennsylvania, man who died in an industrial accident on July 20, 2026, at Alton Steel Inc. in Alton. The man was identified as Andrew J. Bengel, according to the coroner’s office. The incident happened Monday morning, July 20, 2026, at Alton Steel Inc., 5 Cut Street, and the coroner said preliminary evidence indicates a lifting hook fractured, causing Bengel to be struck by

ST. LOUIS — Police arrested a third person who they say was involved in the shooting death of a man in the Walnut Park West neighborhood last year.

FEMA is sending an additional $2.9 million to assist in disaster recovery efforts. That announcement was met with skepticism among many residents still living in the aftermath of the devastating tornado that struck last year.

For a long time, cell site simulators, a.k.a. “Stingrays” made headlines on nearly a daily basis. Then they just kind of fell off the map. L3Harris — the manufacturer of cell site simulators that commanded enough market share to see its flagship product become the victim of genericide — saw the writing on the wall […]

CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) -- The University of Illinois Board of Trustees has taken the next steps to find a pool of applicants all throughout the world in the search for the system's next president. On Monday, the board formally launched the national search by releasing the leadership profile for the system's next president. This profile [...]

The Missouri River Race 340 kicks off Tuesday near Kansas City, featuring non-motorized boaters racing toward St. Charles.

Missouri Republican officials threatened Tuesday to cut state funding for Columbia’s public library after staff held a reading of LGBTQ+ children’s books last week. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and state Sen. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican running for Congress in Missouri’s 5th congressional district, held a joint press conference Tuesday to discuss their investigation […]

A fourth person is in custody for a fatal shooting just over a year ago in the Walnut Park West homicide.

On a special edition of the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air, STLPR's Jason Rosenbaum previews the upcoming August 4th Missouri primary with STLPR reporters Rachel Lippmann and Sarah Kellogg. The journotrio talk about the impact of Amendments 4 and 5 on state legislative elections; the St. Louis County executive contest; and the impact of a redistricting referendum on upcoming elections.