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The St. Louis County Police Department (SLCPD) issued a Silver Advisory for a 74-year-old woman last seen in the Florissant neighborhood.

"Ameren needs to feel the heat" was the chant many St. Louisans echoed at Ameren's Missouri headquarters on Wednesday.

A 2-year-old Morgan County girl has died following an incident at Lake of the Ozarks on Wednesday.

A St. Charles High School teacher is accused of keeping child pornography.

For many youth, especially those from rural parts of Missouri, the state fair is a huge deal. They make the trek each summer to show off their livestock and hopefully take home a winning ribbon.

A teen was tragically killed in a farm tractor accident in Virden, Illinois, on Tuesday.

MADISON AND ST. CLAIR COUNTIES — A severe storm that swept through Madison and St. Clair counties on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 12, 2025, left nearly 10,800 Ameren Illinois customers without power, with outages peaking around 3:30 p.m. in communities including East Alton, Wood River, Granite City, and a portion of St. Clair County. Ameren Illinois crews worked feverishly from the very start and by 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, had rerouted power to nearly all affected customers in St. Clair County, reducing outages there from 2,868 to just 26. The utility was able to isolate the problem and control the affected lines, allowing many residents to regain electricity within a few hours. The storm, characterized by intense lightning and thunder, began impacting the area around 2 p.m. Tuesday, initially causing outages in Wood River and East Alton. East Alton experienced the most significant impact, with roughly 4,000 out along Old St. Louis Road. Wood River and nearby areas reported outages

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CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction finding that Illinois and a coalition of states were likely to succeed on their claim that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) decision to provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with unfettered access to individual personally-identifying information violates the Administrative Procedure Act’s prohibition on arbitrary and capricious rulemaking. DHS houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The preliminary injunction blocks DHS from using the plaintiff states’ Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes. It also blocks HHS from sharing that Medicaid data with DHS for immigration enforcement purposes. The preliminary injunction will remain in place until 14 days after HHS and DHS complete a reasoned decision-making process that complies with

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GLEN CARBON – Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois will host the 7th annual United We Lead Gala on Friday, September 12, 2025 at The Leclaire Room in Edwardsville, IL. The United We Lead Gala, themed “Building a Sweeter Future” in 2025, is the premier fundraising event for Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois that brings together a wide range of people who share the same desire – to be a difference in girls’ lives. “We are thrilled to once again host the United We Lead Gala on September 12,” said Heidi Koehl Weaver, Director of Development for Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois. “Our mission aims to ensure that all girls – regardless of any socioeconomic barriers – have the opportunity to discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges. It’s how they become leaders - but they need our support. This is why they need Girl Scouts.” We are honored to celebrate Agency for Community Transit (ACT) with the Distinguished

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SPRINGFIELD — Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) welcomed House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) to the Springfield Urban League to highlight growing concerns about federal budget cuts and eligibility requirements that would threaten access to essential social service programs, such as Head Start and SNAP. The members met with local families and educators to hear firsthand how these cuts could jeopardize the greater community. “Today, Leader Jeffries had the chance to visit Springfield and meet with the resilient, hardworking people who make this community so special. We heard directly from families in Springfield who depend on programs like Head Start and SNAP – programs that are essential investments in our children’s future. But right now, those programs are under serious threat,” said Congresswoman Budzinski . “The President’s inadequate funding request for Head Start, combined with harmful

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Debris and litter are being blamed for some of the flash flooding around St. Louis on Tuesday.

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes. The Biden administration filed lawsuits against the two states in December after Department of Justice investigations concluded that they had […]

Federer’s Folly, the first-ever mountain bike trail in the City of St. Louis, is now open to the public at Carondelet Park.