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Detectives with the St. Louis County Police Department are investigating a homicide after a woman was found dead in a Castle Point home on Sunday.

St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts says something must be done about his deputies’ pay.

OpenSecrets has released a new report that highlights the growing nationalization of House and Senate races. In the past, nearly all funding for these races came from in-state donors, but over the past two decades candidates have relied more and more on donors from across the country: Senate races have become steadily more nationalized since ...continue reading "House and Senate races have increasingly become national contests"

MADISON, Ill. (AP) — Kyle Busch had been in and out of his car through a lengthy weather delay. He had idled on the track through two red flags. He had kept his poise through 11 cautions, including five down the stretch as he tried to protect his lead. Must have seemed like Sunday's NASCAR [...]

The pastor of the church says, thankfully, no one was injured when strong winds ripped through an exterior wall.

Just a week after telling FOX 2 he wanted to be a NASCAR driver, a determined young man who walked to his eighth-grade graduation spent a day meeting his racecar idols at the Enjoy Illinois 300.

The driver was seriously injured and his passenger was killed.

A new ranking released in June showed Illinois ranked sixth in the country for states with the most postal workers attacked by dogs while delivering letters or packages.

Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire that took over Bar 270 in Hazelwood. It took crews more than five hours to put out.

ALTON - Mike Weller with AP Cigar Co. discussed his new line of cold brew coffee products, all things cigars, and the community of cigar enthusiasts in downtown Alton and beyond on a recent episode of Our Daily Show! on Riverbender.com . He described the lineup as a “barrel series for coffee.” The coffee beans are hand-picked, sifted, and dried in Brazil. They then get shipped to the US, where they are stored in barrels that previously held wine and bourbon, absorbing the aromas from those barrels for three and a half weeks. The new cold brew comes in liquid form (“Wilhelm Cold Brew”) or ground and whole beans (“Table 36”). Both are available at AP Cigar Co. in Alton, and Mac's Convenience Store carries the liquid cold brew. State Street Market is also offering a couple of cocktails using the cold brew, and CJ’s juicery is making a boba tea with it. “The biggest compliment ever is when you have coffee guys that go, ‘That’s

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