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ILLINOIS – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for headcheese that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes ( Lm ). A recall was not requested because the products are no longer available for purchase. Headcheese is a ready-to-eat (RTE), pork deli meat product typically made from meat and seasonings that are cooked together and formed into a loaf or jelly-style product. The fully cooked pork headcheese

ST. LOUIS COUNTY - St. Louis County Police and regional bomb and arson detectives are investigating a house fire and the death of an adult man after officers found him inside a burning home late Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in north St. Louis County. Officers from the St. Louis County Police North County Precinct responded at 10:08 p.m. May 13, 2026, to a call for a house fire in the 11300 block of Old Halls Ferry Road, police said. First responders entered the residence and located an adult

VENICE, Ill. – A St. Louis man who allegedly fled from a Madison County Sheriff’s deputy and “briefly became airborne” in a stolen vehicle among other offenses faces multiple felony charges. Santana J. Leachman, 20, of St. Louis, was charged on May 7, 2026, with a Class 2 felony count of offenses related to motor vehicles, two Class 4 felony counts of aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer, and one Class 4 felony count of aggravated unlawful possession

The name of the man who died has not been released.

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has announced plans for new bill to determine how the city invests $230 million from its share of Rams relocation settlement funds.

ALTON - Ardent Mills moved some items across the roadway near the Clark Bridge on Thursday morning, May 14, 2026. Alton Police Chief Jarrett Ford said the company had requested that the police block lanes to restrict the movement of materials. "Ardent Mills asked us to block lanes while they moved items to keep them and the motorists safe," Chief Ford said. Traffic was slowed and backed up for a period of time on Thursday morning, but Ford said as of about 10 a.m., traffic flow was back to normal

The bill would invest $110 million in tornado recovery and North St. Louis, $65 million in critical infrastructure and $55 million in Downtown.

EDWARDSVILLE - Barrel & Brü Tap House at 6151 Trace Parkway Drive, Suite D, Edwardsville, announced it will close, telling customers in a statement that it made the decision “after a lot of thought and consideration.” The tap house said it will hold a final gathering on Sunday, May 17, inviting “our regulars, friends, staff, and everyone who made this place what it was” to “come out one last time to celebrate the end of this chapter with us.”

EDWARDSVILLE - Traffic on Illinois Route 143 west of Edwardsville was diverted on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, after a large vehicle struck a railroad bridge, prompting a temporary road closure that reopened in the early evening, according to the Edwardsville Fire Department. The department issued a traffic alert for Wednesday, May 13, 2026, saying traffic was being diverted off Route 143 near the railroad bridge west of Edwardsville “due to an incident … involving a large vehicl

As was covered here last week, ProPublica’s Hannah Allam reached out to Trump’s “terrorism czar” Sebastian Gorka to ask him about the wreckage he’s caused since being elevated to a position of power he clearly has no expertise to handle. Gorka’s no expert in domestic security. While his resume may include occasional work for government […]

The Rolling Stones are embracing their younger selves in the video for their latest single, “In the Stars.”The official music video, directed by Francois Rousselet, is out now, with the…

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The surviving spouse of Patricia Ann Penelton on Wednesday sued the Centennial Christian Church of St. Louis, where she was killed in the storm.

A St. Peters man is accused of using an AI-generated voice in a series of phone calls targeting a St. Charles church and making a threat to "shoot up" the church over the weekend.

Tony Messenger's columns will be on hiatus for about a month as he recovers from surgery.

EDWARDSVILLE - Mild weather enabled crews to pour new sidewalk concrete in the North Main Street work zone of Edwardsville, prompting periodic lane restrictions in the city on Monday and Tuesday, May 11 and 12, 2026. Concrete was poured on Monday, May 11, and Tuesday, May 12, 2026, on sections of sidewalk between Hillsboro Avenue and roughly 140 N. Main St. in Edwardsville, according to an update on the North Main Street water main replacement and streetscape project. A concrete conveyor was use