Officials name woman found dead in Washington Park early Sunday

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — An investigation is underway after a man and woman died in a house fire Wednesday morning in Lemay, Missouri. Lt. Jason Brice with the Lemay Fire Protection District said firefighters were called just before 10 a.m. to a fire in the 1200 block of Wachtel Avenue.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Division was requested to a shooting in the Mark Twain neighborhood Wednesday that left a man shot in the pelvis. Police said the shooting happened at about 2:45 Wednesday evening in the 4500 block of Union Boulevard near Interstate...

ST. LOUIS — Police responding to a burglary call found a woman dead Wednesday morning at a north St. Louis home. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, officers initially received a call about a burglary at about 12:10 a.m. Wednesday at the home in the 5100 block of Maffitt Avenue, two blocks west of Kingshighway Boulevard.

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Division was requested to a shooting Tuesday night in St. Louis. It happened just before 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 1100 block of Riverview Boulevard. Police said a 41-year-old man was found shot, unconscious and not breathing. Police did release...

KIRKWOOD, Mo. — The Kirkwood community was changed forever by a mass shooting at city hall on Feb. 7, 2008. Fifteen years ago, six people were killed after Charlie "Cookie" Thornton opened fire at a Kirkwood City Council meeting. Thornton was shot and killed during a shootout with officers who responded to the scene.

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis police recruit has been charged with stealing after St. Louis County police say she stole from a beauty store and hit the manager who tried to stop her. St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell’s Office charged Brittany Hamilton, 33, with one count of...

ST. LOUIS — A double shooting left two women injured Monday morning in north St. Louis, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Officers received a call early Monday from a local hospital about a shooting that occurred at about 1 a.m. that morning. Two women, a 29-year-old and a 26-year-old, said they were in the parking lot of King Grill, located at 3741 St. Louis Ave., when they heard gunshots and felt pain in their legs.

ST. LOUIS — A security guard was robbed at gunpoint Friday night by two masked suspects in a downtown St. Louis parking garage. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the incident happened at about 10:30 p.m. Friday at 9th Street Garage, located at 911 Olive St. That's when a 43-year-old security guard discovered two men chasing cars in the garage.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A man is dead after a Saturday double shooting in East St. Louis. According to Illinois State Police, the shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m. in a vehicle at the intersection of 18th Street and Old Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis. 2 people...

ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the fatal shooting of a man Saturday. Police said officers responded to a shooting near the intersection of S. Broadway and Bates Street at about 3:20 p.m. Saturday. There, they found a 2-vehicle crash, where the 36-year-old driver of a Pontiac Grand Prix was found unconscious and not breathing from a gunshot to the neck.

ST. LOUIS — Editor's note: 5 On Your Side is not naming the woman and blurring her face because she has not yet been charged. "It was back on Jan. 7, 2022," 22-year-old Fatima Suarez said. Suarez said that's the day a complete stranger started terrorizing her family. Suarez's...

LAKE SAINT LOUIS, Mo. — One St. Charles County city saw a major reduction in crime over the past several years. Lake Saint Louis had an impressive decrease and Police Chief Chris DiGiuseppi said they couldn't have achieved it on their own. He said there are several factors that...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis prosecutors charged a south St. Louis woman with three felonies after she was caught on camera repeatedly harassing a family because of their Mexican descent. Signs along Hampton Avenue in the south St. Louis neighborhood warn about children playing, but for one local family,...

DEFIANCE, Mo. — A St. Peters man has died after a motorcycle crash in St. Charles County. The crash occurred shortly before 4:45 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Highway F and Defiance Road in Defiance, Missouri. A 2016 Harley Davidson Sportster 1200 was traveling eastbound on Highway F...

ST. LOUIS — A teenager was fatally shot in the face Sunday evening in St. Louis, police investigators said. The fatal shooting happened shortly before 7:30 p.m. in the 800 block of O'Fallon Street, three blocks north of the Dome at America's Center in the city's Columbus Square neighborhood.

ST. LOUIS — A large and intensifying storm system is moving across the Bi-State region. Rain arrived in time for the Wednesday evening rush hour, slowing traffic on the wet roads. The rain will diminish toward daybreak. Download the free 5 On Your Side app to get the latest...

ST. LOUIS — Ferguson-based Emerson Electric will keep its headquarters in St. Louis, the company said Wednesday. Emerson’s announcement, which came as it shared financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2023, comes after it announced in October it has sold its headquarters in Ferguson and would search for a new headquarters both within and outside of St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS — A suspect has been charged in the killings of a 60-year-man and a 3-year-old girl earlier this week in St. Louis. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office on Saturday charged Henry Hughes, 55, of St. Louis with two counts of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and unlawful possession of a firearm by a dangerous felon.

ST. LOUIS — Every state that touches Missouri has some form of distracted driving law. St. Louis' closest neighbor Illinois has a texting and hand-held phone ban. Wednesday morning, Missouri lawmakers heard from lobbyists and the public about why the state needs detailed distracted driving legislation. "Missouri has one...

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man slated to stand trial for murder this week struck a plea deal Tuesday regarding an April 2020 homicide. According to a press release from the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court of St. Louis, Brandon Campbell, 32, received a 15-year sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter, armed criminal action and unlawful gun possession.