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Officials are not releasing the name of the 17-year-old, who faces murder and assault charges for an Oct. 24 homicide.

The 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, "Now is the Time," event took place Monday after being rescheduled due to inclement weather on Jan. 16. 

Daniel Spratt of Litchfield, Illinois, feels cast aside because he weighs more than 600 pounds and desperately needs medical attention. He's been bedridden since August 2023, when he fell and broke his leg.

Missouri troopers are investigating after a single-vehicle crash Monday left one dead.

The sudden resignation of the brand-new New Haven police chief has rocked the Franklin County river town.

Inside Donna Brown’s Belleville home, every load of laundry sounded like a locomotive.

Cops will charge someone with assault, whether or not they’ve been actually assaulted. It’s a charge often added on top of resisting arrest and can be triggered by any movement or action that results in physical contact with an officer. Throwing a snowball in the direction of a cop can be considered assault, depending on […]

The St. Louis Police Department is now more than 48 hours into a manhunt for a juvenile murder suspect who escaped from the city’s juvenile detention center Saturday evening.

On a day where there were no teams taking the ice or the field in St. Louis, it was still just as busy.

With nearly half a million properties in St. Louis County, the majority of owners saw an increase in their home's value, but many have questioned the county's algorithm as some St. Louisans are left troubled with taxes.

An 80-year-old woman has been forced to take drastic measures after water main breaks left her with no working toilets.

I happened to come across a short piece by Lydia Polgreen about the "Fast Cars" duet at the Grammys featuring Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs. In a throwaway sentence at the end she said this about Chapman: She was a poet of the despair wrought by the cruel economic vision of the Reagan years. What ...continue reading "What would a poet of despair say about the 21st century?"

Missouri's governor said he is spending the week figuring out which and how many resources to send to the southern border in Texas. 

WOOD RIVER - Wood River is one step closer to getting a Heaterz Hot Chicken location following unanimous approval from the City Council at their meeting on Monday night. City officials have agreed to help fund the renovation of the restaurant’s next home on Ferguson Avenue. City Council members unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing the execution of a Redevelopment Agreement with Heaterz Development Company LLC for TIF Financial Assistance at 11 W. Ferguson Ave., as submitted by the city’s TIF Committee. Councilman Bill Dettmers said at the meeting that Heaterz requested $30,000 per year over eight years for a total of $240,000 in TIF assistance from the city. He spoke in support of the agreement due to their strong revenue and employment projections. “I’m going to vote in favor of this tonight,” Dettmers said. “We now have some financial information … it appears that this will provide approximately $34,000 to $66,000

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