Newly released photos show St. Louis aldermen taking thousands in bribes

ST. LOUIS — Everyone will grieve and process the video that captured the gruesome beating that led to the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis differently, including police officers. Sgt. Donnell Walters with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and president of the Ethical Society of Police, told 5...

ST. LOUIS — Just 24 hours ago, the Memphis Police Department released the footage in the Tyre Nichols investigation to the public. Editor's Note: We need to warn you, the images are disturbing and very difficult to watch. Since its release, the video has sparked protests across the country,...

ST. LOUIS — The death of a Memphis man who was beaten by police and died three days later hits close to home for people in the St. Louis region. The City of Memphis on Friday released an intense video showing five police officers beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols for three minutes on Jan. 7.

ST. LOUIS — In the state of Missouri, there's a battle over a bill on who should control the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Senate Bill 78 would put police back under state control. Joe Steiger, business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association, is all for a...

ST. LOUIS — It's an issue community leaders are calling a 'public health crisis.'. Some of the most serious and violent crimes in the past week were committed by teenagers. Over the weekend two more violent acts were added to that list. Robberies, assaults, even carjackings turned deadly. These...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — During a Sunday afternoon church service in East St. Louis, two men opened fire at one another, wounding one another and an innocent bystander. One of the shooters would later die. According to East St. Louis Police Department, the shooters knew each other, and...

ST. LOUIS — On a chilly Friday night, several dozen people gathered outside St. Louis police headquarters to remember Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old man who was beaten by five Memphis police officers earlier this month. "Say his name! Tyre Nichols! Tyre Nichols!” demonstrators shouted. Members from the community...

ST. LOUIS — An insurance company was ordered Friday to pay $10 million to a mother whose 16-year-old son was shot and killed outside a nightclub in 2010. According to a news release from the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court, nine of 12 members of a St. Louis jury found that Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's of London, which insured the former Pulse nightclub in north St. Louis, must pay Latronya Adams over the killing of her son, Orlando Willis.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — The East St. Louis Police Department has new leadership Thursday after the former chief abruptly retired a week ago. Mayor Robert Eastern III provided a statement that read:. "East St. Louis Mayor Robert Eastern III recently announced that Police Chief Kendall Perry has officially...

ST. LOUIS — A person was killed in a Friday night shooting in the city's Old North St. Louis neighborhood. Officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded shortly after 8 p.m. to a shooting on the 3200 block of N 19th Street. They found a male victim lying in the street with gunshot wounds. He was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

ST. LOUIS — Investigators were looking for a truck in connection to an attempted arson in Soulard. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, St. Louis Field Office and the St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson Unit released photos Friday of a dark red truck and asked the public to locate the vehicle.

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) confirmed that the same group might be responsible for a string of carjackings and attempted carjackings in south St. Louis on Wednesday. During SLMPD’s weekly crime briefing, Captain Joseph Morici told reporters the department formed a task force of...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison for the 2020 killing of his girlfriend in the city's Tower Grove East neighborhood. Circuit Judge Timothy Boyer sentenced 25-year-old Kristopher Burns-Jackson to 12 years for second-degree murder and a consecutive three-year sentence for armed criminal action in the killing of Monay Phillips.

ST. LOUIS — A 5-year-old boy was shot in the head Sunday night in the LaSalle Park neighborhood, according to police. The boy was in surgery around 9 p.m., police said. His medical status was last reported as critical. Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department were...

ST. LOUIS — Months after a fatal shooting outside of a former church in Jennings, a St. Louis man was arrested in connection to the incident. On April 16, police responded to the 6300 block of Lillian Avenue at about 4:45 p.m., where they found a man and a woman who had been shot inside a car that was parked in the street in front of a former church, just north of Interstate 70 between Goodfellow Boulevard and Jennings Station Road.

ST. LOUIS — Congregation Temple Israel found the monument sign outside the faith center sprayed with graffiti in a possible antisemitic hate crime Tuesday morning. According to a press release from the Creve Coeur Police Department, the department went to the center located at 1 Rabbi Alvan D. Rubin Drive just before 8:30 a.m. regarding a report of property damage.

ST. LOUIS — During an interview with 5 On Your Side on Monday, Gail Watkins, with Mothers Advocating Safe Streets made a comment on the minds of many. "It just baffles me to put them back into the hands of their parents," Watkins said. She's talking about two teens...

ST. LOUIS — Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) confirmed at least two major accidents involving a massive pileup in St. Louis were caused by black ice on interstate highways. MSHP Cpl. Logan Bolton said of two major accidents including one on Interstate 64 eastbound between DD and N involving...

ST. LOUIS — Alpha Brewing Company has come a long way since Derrick Langeneckert first set up shop in a 2,500-square-foot space downtown nearly a decade ago. In 2017, he bought a 14,000-square-foot space at 4310 Fyler Ave. in Tower Grove South, complete with a large taproom, brewing facility and event space.

ST. PETERS, Mo. — Driving a stolen Kia, a juvenile struck a MSHP trooper in St. Peters Saturday evening, a MSHP spokesperson confirmed. As the trooper spoke to the driver during a traffic stop in the east bound lanes of I-70 near Mid Rivers Mall Drive, the driver took off, striking the trooper.