WOOD RIVER – Wood River Police Chief Brad Wells recently honored multiple officers and telecommunications for their outstanding service throughout 2025. Wells joined Mayor Tom Stalcup in presenting the Officer of the Year Award for 2025 to Brendan Wright at the Feb. 2, 2026 Wood River City Council meeting . Wells said Wright fielded the most calls of any officer in the department last year, totaling 2,706 calls in 2025. “In 2025, Officer Wright handled the most complaints in
Companies profiting from unregulated convenience store slot machines would have two years to pull their games off the market under a bill advanced Monday in a Missouri House committee. The bill — the latest in a years-long effort by law enforcement and legislators to rein in the games — would create a state-run video lottery […]
Homicide detectives from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) are responding to a shooting in north St. Louis that left one person dead Monday afternoon.
Authorities in Warren County are searching for the individuals who struck a police officer with a car during a traffic stop Sunday morning. The officer was not injured, but the three suspects abandoned their vehicle and ran from the scene.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St. Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office. A short while later, the White […]
Missouri lawmakers are considering legislation that would clamp down on two intoxicating substances that have popped up in retail locations across the state.
Funeral arrangements have been announced for the 23-year-old man identified as the victim who fell into a frozen pond while saving his dog last week in New Baden, Illinois.
St. Louis city officials are calling for answers following another death at the City Justice Center, the latest in a series of deaths at the facility over the past five years.
A Missouri man fighting a calculation that could keep him in state prison for more than 40 years on a 23-year sentence lost the first round of a court battle seeking to be released. On Friday, Cole County Circuit Judge Brian Stumpe refused to order the Missouri Department of Corrections to change how it calculated […]