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St. Louis City2 will play against Sporting Kansas City (KC) II on Sunday, September 18 at the new soccer stadium for the first time.

GLEN CARBON - The Glen Carbon Police now has a St. Louis suspect charged in a highly difficult armed robbery case. The charges come after an extensive investigation by Detective Ross Tyler and several other law enforcement officers. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois has charged Jaylin E. Lewis, a 20-year-old male, of the 1600 block of Rudelle Drive in St. Louis, MO., with three counts of actual or attempted robbery with the use of a firearm under the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C., 1951). Glen Carbon Police recalled the incident that started the case as follows: "At about 6:53 a.m. on Friday, September 3, 2021, Glen Carbon Police responded to an armed robbery reported by 911 phone call and activated panic alarm at the Glen Mart BP Gas Station, # 4 The Game Drive. Arriving on the scene within minutes, Glen Carbon police officers and detectives found the lone armed robber had successfully fled the scene toward Highway 270 in a black Chevrolet passenger car. "During the ensuin

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Police said the callers were using phone spoofing to make it appear they are calling from local government offices.

The state passed a slate of bills that tighten up its climate plans.

Police say 1-year-old Khori Patterson accidentally shot himself inside a home on Melvin Avenue. He died at the hospital.

EDWARDSVILLE - With the November 8 General Election approaching and early voting just a month away, Madison County Clerk’s Office says it has been inundated with FOIA requests for voting records. Madison County Clerk, Debbie Ming-Mendoza, is issuing this statement to the public with information regarding access to voting records. Mendoza stated: “It is my utmost responsibility as the Chief Election Officer of Madison County to maintain the highest integrity of voting records. All election results are available to the general public on the County Clerk’s website following the canvass of the ballots cast. Results from primary elections do show how primary voters tend to vote by party identification.” The voting system Madison County uses is an optical scan system. It has proven to be very accurate in counting the proper number of votes for individual candidates, as well as, referendum ballot questions. The system does not track who votes for who or what issue.

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Following a protest from the Prince estate, a judge has ruled that an energy drink cannot trademark the name "Purple Rain." Billboard reports a judge said Bang Energy could not trademark…

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Parson recently called a Nov. 8 recreational marijuana ballot measure a “disaster.”

Police and school officials investigated reports of a bomb Thursday and reports of an airsoft gun Wednesday at St. James High School.

From the late summer of 1980 to the fall of 1981, organized crime families were at war and mob violence shook our city.

A St. Louis County jury has determined Bayer and the former Monsanto should not be held liable in a lawsuit over the weed killer product Roundup.

BETHALTO - A Bethalto man was charged today in Madison County Circuit Court with three counts of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm and one count of Aggravated Battery With a Firearm. The man is Thomas A. Bowers, 67, of the 700 block of South Moreland in the Kickapoo Village Trailer Park in Bethalto. Bethalto Police Chief Mike Dixon said charges stem from the police response and investigation into two separate 911 calls received at 12 p.m. on August 31, 2022, reporting a man shooting a gun inside Kickapoo Village Trailer Park, 750 South Moreland Road, Bethalto. "The first caller reported her neighbor had just shot a gun into her home, which was also occupied by her 10-old-daughter and fiancé," the chief said. "The second 911 caller was a family member of the manager of Kickapoo Village who reported the manager had been shot while mowing grass in the park. "Officers from the Bethalto Police Department, Madison County Sheriff’s Office, as well as the East Alton, Woo

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A school bus from the Ladue School District was involved in a crash with at least one other vehicle Thursday afternoon in Olivette.

President Joe Biden will deliver a prime-time speech on the "Soul of the Nation" Thursday in Philadelphia.

A piece of wall from The Ed Sullivan Show's set, signed by all four Beatles members when they made their historic first appearance on the program on February 9, 1964,…

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A man faces criminal charges after a shooting at a Metro East trailer park Wednesday afternoon.

by Tom Finan, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Construction Forum Yesterday (Sept. 1) Rich Ledbetter became the CEO of Guarantee Electrical, a national $300M, 1,000 employee organization that traces its history to the 1904 World’s Fair. He succeeds CEO Rick Oertli, whose grandfather, Fred Oertli, Sr.,  joined the company in 1926 as a laborer. When Fred […]