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Alton hosts 157th Memorial Day Parade
Today is the Alton Memorial Day Parade, and organizers expect a parade that will look like many of the past. The event in Upper Alton starts at Alton Middle School, winds around the block at Washington Plaza/Washington Square, and heads north to Locust, winding up at the Upper Alton City Cemetery.
5 confirmed tornadoes touch down in First Alert 4 viewing area Sunday
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Five tornadoes touched down in the First Alert 4 viewing area Sunday, the National Weather Service says. An EF-2 tornado struck near Xenia in Clay County, Illinois. Four E-F1 tornadoes also hit:. New Baden in Clinton County, Illinois. Forbes Lake in Marion County,...
Pritzker rebukes counties’ calls for secession: ‘We are one Illinois’
PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said he wanted “to remind everyone…that we are one Illinois” while celebrating the opening of a new government facility in a county that will ask voters this November if it should secede and form part of a new state. Madison County voters will be asked if […]
Parades and services mark Memorial Day
Memorial Day is the day Americans remember the servicemen and women who did not return home from their time in the military. There are remembrances of various types scheduled for many towns in the Riverbend today. There is a parade and ceremony in Jerseyville beginning at 9am at the tire...
Family, friends mourn after transgender woman’s body found along river
ST. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) -A transgender woman from St. Louis has been identified as the victim whose body was discovered along the Mississippi River. Family and friends of 23-year-old Darri Moore said they are suspicious of the circumstances around her death and that she never would have committed suicide.
Family remembers mother, 2 daughters ‘taken from us too soon’ in car crash
ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - A Missouri family is in mourning after a car crash involving a tractor-trailer took the lives of a mother and her two young daughters. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 45-year-old Michelle C. Yaeger and her two daughters, ages 8 and 10, were traveling in a GMC Yukon when the crash happened around 7:35 a.m. Friday at the point where traffic from Interstate 55 merges onto northbound Interstate 270 in South County.
Man shot and killed on northern edge of downtown St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A man was shot and killed on the northern edge of downtown St. Louis Sunday evening. Police say the shooting near the intersection of 13th and Lucas, just after 8:00 p.m. A man in his 20s was shot in the head. Homicide detectives...
City of Jennings could pay out millions in lawsuit without insurance coverage
JENNINGS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A city in north St. Louis County may be forced to pay nearly $2 million in damages for breaching a contract. In February, Hankins Construction filed a lawsuit against the City of Jennings for $1.7 million plus interest in damages over a canceled city hall center.
Barricaded suspect in East Alton who shot at officers, took own life, is identified
EAST ALTON, Ill. (First Alert 4) - Illinois State Police on Saturday identified a man who authorities say took his own life while barricaded inside a home in East Alton after allegedly firing shots at law enforcement officers. In a news release, troopers said medical examiners in Madison County completed...
Severe weather brings hail, tornado warnings to St. Louis area
The St. Louis region was slammed by severe weather late afternoon and early Sunday evening. A storm system moved over the entire viewing area, leading to tornado warnings, heavy rain, and plenty of hail piling up quickly across the area in various sizes.
Police investigating triple shooting in North City
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Police are investigating a triple shooting that happened in North City Monday night. Police say the shooting happened in the 5900 block of Tara Lane, which is in the North Pointe neighborhood, around 9:45 p.m. Police say four teens had a fight with...
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