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EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe released information today that a U.S. District judge sentenced two Chinese nationals to more than 12 months imprisonment for their involvement in a gift card scheme directed at Target shoppers across the Midwest, including Belleville. Hongying Wang, 53, and Guangwei Gao, 38, pleaded guilty to one felony count of using and trafficking in a counterfeit access device. The pair have been incarcerated since Jan. 21, 2023, and so have served their full prison time. In January 2023, a Target security officer observed Wang and Gao placing gift cards onto the racks in the Belleville store for customers to purchase. Upon further review, the gift cards were altered with the codes scratched off and covered by stickers to appear untouched. “The defendants placed fake gift cards onto sales racks with the intention of stealing the loaded funds once purchased by patrons,” said U.S. Attorney Rachelle Aud Crowe. “The investigation

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St. Louis police have four people on suspicion of car clouting who may have also been involved in a shooting early Wednesday morning that injured an off-duty police officer.

EDWARDSVILLE/GLEN CARBON - On Feb. 22, 2024, the Autism Clinic at Hope invites you to “play with purpose” and enjoy ten rounds of glow-in-the-dark bingo to help fund the programs sponsored through Hope. With over $1,000 in cash prizes available and a glow hat included with every ticket, the night promises to be a fun way to help out. Jodi Ogilvy, Chief Communications and Development Officer at Hope, explained that the organization is expanding, with plans to offer more programs and clinics in the future. The fundraiser will help them to do this. “Being a nonprofit, it’s difficult to really have the funds to expand as quickly as we need to,” Ogilvy said. “But that’s where some of these fundraising events that we have come into play. It helps us to further our mission more and to meet the needs in the communities that we serve.” Located at the Moose Lodge in Edwardsville, the fundraiser invites attendees to play bingo with

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Billy Joel is once again revisiting the albums from the first half of his career. After releasing the box set The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1. in 2021, Joel is now giving fans a…

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A multicar crash left at least two people dead and several others injured early Wednesday in St. Louis' Downtown West neighborhood. A car struck multiple vehicles and pedestrians at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in the middle of the intersection at North 18th and Olive streets, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. It happened just blocks away from the Enterprise Center, where thousands of people were leaving the Drake and J. Cole concert minutes before. A law enforcement source…

ALTON - Calling all Broadway fans. The Alton Symphony Orchestra will host a free Afternoon of Musical Pops concert on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024, at Hatheway Hall on the Lewis and Clark Community College campus. The concert will begin at 3 p.m. with selections from theater favorites like “Swan Lake,” “The Sound of Music," “Hamilton,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “West Side Story” and more. The senior students from the Alton Youth Symphony will also perform, along with up-and-coming violinist Aiden Moon, the Marie Stillwell Concerto Competition Winner. Shane Williams, the maestro of the Alton Symphony Orchestra (ASO), promises a fun time for all community members who come to listen. “At the Alton Symphony, we want to make the music come alive for all, and that means everybody in the community come and enjoy and just have a great experience,” Williams said. As a performer and conductor, Williams has an impressive musical

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The Cardinals are expected to debut their City Connect uniforms later this season. However, as pitchers and catchers report to spring training, there's another big uniform change that's the talk of town, and not particularly in good graces for everyone.

Health care mega-mergers, like one recently completed by BJC HealthCare, lead to higher hospital prices for consumers, experts said. A Business Journal analysis shows the local health system’s prices were already high.

ALTON - A GoFundMe has been set up for the family of Ra’niya Steward, a 13-year-old girl who was killed in a drive-by shooting in Alton. According to her father , Steward was a “great girl” who loved TikTok and was excited to welcome a new sibling soon. Megan Tyler of Sacred Spaces of CARE organized the GoFundMe with the permission of Steward’s family. A Ra’niya Memorial Fund account is also set up at Liberty Bank in Alton, where you can make in-person cash donations. Both the GoFundMe and the Ra’niya Memorial Fund money will go to the family. “Our community has suffered a tragic loss, and it is time for us to honor Ra’niya by wrapping around those who loved her most through the giving of resources, love, and prayers,” Tyler said. “Ra’niya was a young, beautiful, vibrant 13-year-old who will be missed dearly. There are no adequate words and nothing of value in this world that can ease the pain of this significant

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One of the region's key business groups, announced a successor for founder, president and CEO Kathy Osborn.

London is covered with cameras. They’re everywhere people are. That includes the London Underground, the city’s massive subway system. But these days, it’s not enough to have thousands of unblinking, passive eyes watching Londoners go about their days. AI is the special sauce. Facial recognition is pretty much a given in London. Added to the […]

St. Louis' fish fry tradition should get a makeover to reduce an invasive species, a retired University of Missouri professor argues.

Luminar Neo is an easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers photography lovers to express the beauty they imagined using innovative AI-driven tools. Luminar Neo was built from the ground up to be different from previous Luminar editors. It keeps your favorite LuminarAI tools and expands your arsenal with more state-of-the-art technologies and important changes at […]

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Has anyone ever explained this? It just keeps going on and on. New business applications have been running more than 100,000 above trend ever since the start of the pandemic. By now it amounts to about 5 million excess applications. Why would the pandemic have this effect? And why would it still be going strong ...continue reading "Why is business formation so strong?"

A manager with the school bus company told 5 On Your Side the vehicle that hit the school bus drove away from the scene.

The bill would be the first change in more than 50 years to Missouri's Clean Water Act protections.