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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,...
At least 2 tornadoes touch down in Clinton County, destroying homes and local businesses
CARLYLE, Ill — Several areas across our region were hit hard by everything from hail to strong winds to flooding. One of the hardest hit areas from Sunday night's storms was Clinton County in the Metro East, specifically in New Baden and Carlyle, Illinois. Two EF1 tornadoes were confirmed...
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 […]
Crash on I-270 leaves 1 man dead in St. Louis County
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A man died from being in a car crash Monday morning in St. Louis County. Missouri State Highway Patrol says Dwayne Washington, 44, was driving over the speed limit, traveling eastbound on I-270 West of Lilac in a 2015 Dodge Charger. He was inattentive and exited the roadway to the right, striking a guardrail.
Traffic stop leads to drugs and warrant arrest
KNIGHTSTOWN – Friday morning, a trooper from the Indiana State Police Pendleton District stopped a passenger vehicle for an equipment violation and discovered the driver was wanted out of Illinois for possession of dangerous drugs. On May 24, 2024, around 12:30 A.M., Trooper Avery Weisbrodt patrolled Interstate 70 near...
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.
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.
Man charged with murder in November shooting in Downtown St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The apprehension of a suspect by a St. Louis Police tactical team on Friday has resulted in a murder charge in the shooting of a man in November in Downtown who later succumbed to his injuries. Police said in a news release that...
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