Updated: 1 hour ago
|By Matt Woods
The Northwoods Police Department warned the public Tuesday about a recent scam at a BP gas station that may have resulted in credit card fraud.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Matt Woods
Tommy Boyd, a Missouri inmate who escaped Mercy Hospital South on September 21, was charged with escaping the Department of Corrections.
Updated: 20 hours ago
|By Matt Woods
An O’Fallon, Missouri, man was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison for fleeing a deadly high-speed crash in 2020.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Matt Woods
A man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday for killing a Lyft driver in 2021 in north St. Louis’ Baden neighborhood.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Matt Woods
A former Venice, Illinois, police officer was federally indicted in September on a charge accusing him of assaulting a man in handcuffs.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2023 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
An East St. Louis man was convicted of fentanyl trafficking and a shooting death in University City in 2019.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2023 at 5:07 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Two 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old were charged with murder after police said a robbery resulted in a man’s death.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2023 at 4:00 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged a youth athletic coach with attempted enticement of a child and sexual misconduct involving a child.
Updated: Sep. 28, 2023 at 11:28 AM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Bethalto man riding a motorcycle was killed in Alton Monday, the Madison County Coroner’s Office said.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2023 at 12:50 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged 43-year-old Robert Bunger with a June killing in St. Louis’ Dutchtown neighborhood.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2023 at 1:00 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Northwoods police officer was suspended from the department after an incident at a Walgreens last week while he was working department-approved secondary as a security guard.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2023 at 4:02 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbing a cell phone store and carjacking someone at gunpoint in 2021.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A woman was sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution for pandemic loan fraud.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2023 at 11:55 AM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Collinsville man convicted of hitting and killing someone on U.S. Highway 40 in Highland in 2018 while driving under the influence of cannabis has been sentenced to prison.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2023 at 6:25 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods and Shoshana Stahl
The Lake Saint Louis Police Department is investigating a 72-year-old man’s death Thursday evening.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2023 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
An Edwardsville man was charged with six counts of sharing and possessing child pornography.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2023 at 3:58 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for stealing, armed criminal action, and other convictions in St. Louis County.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2023 at 10:33 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods and Shoshana Stahl
Washington University in St. Louis will stop prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, the university announced Monday. It will refer any minor patients currently receiving that care to other providers.
Updated: Sep. 11, 2023 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Michael C. Schneider of Fairview Heights was charged with possession of child pornography after a months-long investigation.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2023 at 3:30 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A woman pleaded guilty to a counterfeit gift card scheme directed at Target shoppers in St. Clair County.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2023 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Los Angeles man was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison for leading a drug conspiracy ring that sent meth to southern Illinois.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 4:14 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
rosecutors charged Bradley C. McKinney with a downtown St. Louis carjacking in July.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2023 at 3:05 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A St. Louis County mother and son were charged with defrauding the Social Security Administration by falsely claiming a mental disability.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2023 at 10:19 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Hundreds of pictures of people lost to drug overdoses lined the fence outside Concordia Lutheran Church in Kirkwood Thursday evening.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2023 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Tishawn Washington, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter in a 2021 homicide near Fairground Park in the city of St. Louis.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2023 at 3:02 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A man who was already serving a 71-month prison sentence for harassment and stalking was sentenced to seven additional years behind bars in a separate harassment case.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Tommy Edman hit a 2-run home run off of Padres closer Josh Hader to walk the Padres off in the series finale Wednesday. It was Edman’s second straight day with a walk-off hit.
Updated: Aug. 29, 2023 at 11:24 AM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A 19-year-old and 13-year-old were arrested after a pursuit involving a vehicle that was stolen from St. Louis’ Shaw neighborhood.
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 5:06 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Gene Baker, the former Granite City High School soccer coach who won nine state championships, five of them consecutive, died Saturday at 79 years old.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 5:44 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Six inmates at the St. Louis City Justice Center were charged Friday after a guard at the jail was taken hostage earlier in the week.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 3:29 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged 21-year-old Rashaud First with fleeing police and endangering the welfare of his 1-year-old daughter.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2023 at 1:51 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A man was shot multiple times Thursday in Cahokia Heights and set on fire, police said.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2023 at 3:21 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Columbia, Missouri man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the shooting death of a man in a Taco Bell parking lot in downtown St. Louis in 2020.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2023 at 4:58 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A St. Louis County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing Quiktrip stores five times in December of 2021. Terrence Gleason, 52, pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery and two counts of possessing and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2023 at 2:14 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Cahokia Heights man was charged with assaulting a police officer and aggravated battery of a school employee at a high school football game in O’Fallon.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2023 at 3:40 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Three people were charged Friday in East Alton after police served a search warrant related to a meth investigation.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2023 at 2:42 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The St. Louis Police Foundation is giving $860,000 to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department for overtime patrols in downtown St. Louis through the fall.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 4:06 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Hazelwood man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for scams adding up to more than $400,000.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2023 at 1:25 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Belleville man was indicted Wednesday on charges that allege he sold Percocet laced with fentanyl that resulted in another man’s death.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 7:24 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A St. Louis man was sentenced to 120 years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing a 7-year-old and taking videos of two other children.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls announced Tuesday it is closing immediately.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 4:51 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods and Russell Kinsaul
Plaques commemorating U.S. soldiers were stolen from Jefferson Barracks park, and police are trying to find who is responsible.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Regina Brand, 52, pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing $237,000 from two pandemic assistance programs.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 4:23 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A crime intervention task force in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrested a convicted felon with a firearm Sunday.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2023 at 1:27 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The FBI announced Tuesday that 65-year-old Daniel Harris was captured after evading a federal arrest warrant for more than six years.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 4:58 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A Los Angeles man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shipping meth from Los Angeles to St. Louis and other Midwest cities.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A former St. Louis County realty company employee was sentenced to three years in prison Friday for embezzling more than $480,000 from the company.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 3:21 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
Prosecutors charged a woman with firs-degree property damage after police alleged she knocked over an inventory robot in a Schnucks store.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2023 at 5:32 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
The former president of the Alton chapter of the AFSCME labor union was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution after embezzling more than $200,000 in union funds.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2023 at 5:13 PM CDT
|By Matt Woods
A 24-year-old man pleaded guilty to charges involving three people’s deaths during drug deals.