Russell Kinsaul

Heavy metal is working to bring good-paying jobs to the St. Louis region.

It’s estimated that an average of 27 cars are stolen each day in St. Louis City and St. Louis County combined.

St. Louis is investigating the possibility that a convicted rapist was able to access the internet from the St. Louis County Justice Center and use the dating app Bumble.

Plans for the redevelopment of the former St. Louis Mills Mall in Hazelwood are moving forward now that the building has a new owner.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a burglary at a mobile home on Brookstone Drive in House Springs. The thieves ripped out the sheetrock walls and removed most of the electrical wiring.

The St. Charles County Police Department has started a crime deterrence initiative to help county residents help themselves reduce the risk of being a victim of a crime.

St. Louis has a long history of producing Olympic athletes. The next Olympian with ties to St. Louis might be a student at Washington University who’s studying math and physics.

Flu and RSV cases have spiked in the last two weeks. St. Louis Children’s Hospital reports a 300 percent jump in RSV and other respiratory illnesses from the same time last year.

Jay Gross was on his way to work around 5:30 a.m. Saturday when he encountered several slick spots caused by a surprise overnight snowfall.

Road crews with MoDOT and IDOT spent the day pretreating interstates and major roadways with a liquid salt brine, ahead of forecasted snowfall Monday night and Tuesday morning. MoDOT officials spoke about their response to the pending snow event at a press conference Monday afternoon.

Don Miller’s B-24 dropped out of formation and attempted to limp back to France. Eventually, three of the four engines went out and the plane lost its hydraulics and electrical systems.

Festus police are investigating the recent theft of a pickup truck that shut down a local horseshoer’s business.

Kirkwood-based Density USA will install its first anti-theft fogging devices next week. Scott Bader founded the company after hearing the frustrations of businesses hit by burglars.

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, who is running for re-election, made two announcements on Monday about the use of COVID relief funds for police and daycare workers.

Thousands of voters across the St. Louis region won’t be going to the polls on election day, because they’ve already voted.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, more than 300 Ukrainians have resettled in St. Louis. More are waiting to come, but there’s a shortage of sponsors.

St. Charles County, St. Louis County and Jefferson County election officials are reporting an increase in numbers of absentee voters over the days prior to the 2018 midterm election

According to Sunset Hills Police, a driver’s black BMW 740 was stolen Monday around 5:00 a.m. in the 12400 block of Cinema Lane when it was left running while the owner, an Amazon driver, took a package to a porch.

“We’ve been sourcing most of them from junk yards but that has been running scarcer and scarcer, and those parts are getting more expensive. Where a window was like $80, now it’s like $200."

On Monday morning, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School principal Dr. Kacy Seals Shahid said she was preparing to have her staff do a sweep of the halls to find the students who were late for class. Before that could happen, Shahid said she was notified by a security officer that an intruder was in the building.

During Monday’s school shooting in south St. Louis City, employees at several nearby businesses stepped up to help students who evacuated and the police officers who responded.

School security is on the minds of parents in the St. Louis region following Monday’s deadly school shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.

With three weeks to go before the midterm election on November 8, election officials are reminding Missouri voters that they’ll need a government-issued photo ID when they go to the polls. Bob and JoAnn Oestereich brought two forms when they voted absentee on Wednesday.

Parents are expressing concern after a round of independent testing detected radioactive waste and at elevated levels, inside Jana Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District.

Adam and Brittany Crouch recently bought a 2020 Kia Optima. It still had the temporary tag on it when it was stolen Monday night.

The package said “Delta 88 THC” on it; a cannabis product that’s meant for adults only.

Jeri Bross’ 8-year-old son, Dylan, attends Christ The King Catholic School in University City.

The St. Charles Police Department and the ATF are investigating an attempted break-in around 5 a.m. at Kevin’s Guns on Duchesne Drive. Police say the thieves stole a 2013 Hyundai Elantra a few blocks from the store and attempted to drive the car through the front of the store.

There are labor shortages in St. Louis and around the world. The shortage of workers stretches from restaurants to factories to construction sites and law enforcement.

A Wildwood resident notified police that she received a call from a scammer yesterday. It appears to have been an attempt to pull off a well-known phone scam known as the “grandparent scam.”

Detectives with the St. Charles County Police Department are investigating the theft of checks from mailboxes at two churches and a church-related school. The thieves were able to cash checks totaling $40,000.

A resolution calling for salaries for St. Louis police officers to be comparable and competitive with area police departments was introduced to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen Friday morning.

Doctors told Erricka Moorehead that her due date was September 12. But her daughter had a different plan.

Susan Dorn of Ballwin has called an air conditioning repair company to her home several times recently. She hadn’t had any problems with her central air conditioning system previously.

The Fox C-6 School District will hold a job fair on Tuesday evening to address a staffing shortage. The district has 65 unfilled positions, but the most critical need is bus drivers. The district was forced to cut bus service to hundreds of students because of a shortage of drivers

A 48-year-old Collinsville man is accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend on Thanksgiving Day in 2021.

Gas prices have dropped significantly after setting new record highs of more than $5 a gallon in July. According to Don Redman with AAA, prices should continue the trend this fall.

Drew Cronin and Michelle Wambach are getting married Saturday and have had a lot of gifts delivered by FedEx recently. But when they opened the packages they found a lot of items were broken.

The intersection of Union Boulevard and Lindell Boulevard is also a bridge that spans Forest Park Parkway and was built in 1929.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a break-in and theft early Saturday morning at Columbia Auto Repair on Southwest Avenue

According to the St. Louis Police Department, a 39-year-old female Amazon delivery driver was carjacked in the 4400 block of West Pine in the Central West End Saturday morning around 6 a.m.

The first nasal spray COVID vaccine in the world, was approved for use in India this week. It was developed at Washington University by David Curiel, MD, Ph.D., who is director of the Biological Therapeutics Center and Michael Diamond, MD, Ph.D., who is a professor of molecular biology, pathology and immunology.

A thief was caught on video stealing a package from the front porch of a home on Seibert Avenue in south St. Louis on Tuesday. The theft of packages from front porches is a crime that hasn’t gone away.

Debbie Wiegand has owned a Hyundai Tuscon since 2018 and loves it but she’s worried it might get stolen. Many Kia and Hyundai owners feel the same way.

Sometime in the last week, vandals toppled headstones and damaged monuments at the Richardson Cemetery in the 2000 block of Richardson Road in Arnold

A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and Saint Louis University School of Medicine found that men with low testosterone were 2-and-a-half times more likely to be hospitalized from COVID.

Rockwood School Board member, Jessica Clark, attended her first board meeting Thursday night since she made controversial comments.

Chad Cartwright is recovering from a gunshot wound to his lower back. He suffered the injury when someone randomly shot into the pickup he was driving on Page Boulevard when he stopped for a red light at Academy Avenue

On Friday, FEMA opened a fourth disaster recovery center in the St. Louis area.

The urban renewal board is hoping huge tax breaks will spur the development of a 400-acre section of north St. Louis.