St. Louis City opens 24 hour warming shelters; St. Louis County offering services but experiencing difficulties

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - A blood drive scheduled for today through the St. Louis Comptroller’s office was canceled. It wasn’t a shortage of donors, it was a lack of Red Cross workers. The Red Cross has a hiring event coming up Thursday. It is at the Hazelwood...

ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – A Missouri lawmaker is fighting to name an official food for Missouri’s State Fair. State Rep. Ian Mackey, who represents part of St. Louis County, filed House Bill 788. The bill would make corn dogs the official food of the fair. The bill has...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Three people were hospitalized after an overnight shooting Sunday in north St. Louis County. Police responded to a call around 11:15 p.m. in the 80 block of Williams Boulevard. Three people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries; two of the victims have been released from the hospital. Police believe the suspect(s) knew the victims.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - New efforts to solve cold cases in Lincoln County, leading to possible new evidence in a well-known case of a missing girl. Bianca Piper went missing in 2005, less than a mile from her family’s home. Piper was 13 years old when she went missing on March 10, 2005, near her home in Foley, Missouri.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Siteman Cancer Center is in need of more volunteers across all six of it’s satellite locations. Peter Aiello is a stage four colon cancer patient. Aiello has been coming to Siteman for treatment for the last seven years. “Without them it would be a...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KMOV) – One person was killed in a north St. Louis County crash Monday afternoon. The crash happened before 4:45 p.m. in the 9760 block of Lewis and Clark Blvd. The Missouri State Highway Patrol confirmed to News 4 that one person was pronounced dead shortly after the crash.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - A tiny home that was being sold as a part of a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity St. Louis was stolen on Saturday. The theft happened at their lot at Restore Des Peres. Director of Public Safety for Des Peres, Eric Hall, said the theft happened at 1 a.m. on Saturday. Des Peres police are working to locate both the trailer and the tiny home.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - The string of South City ATM robberies continued Friday night, with two happening just hours apart. The first robbery happened at a BMO Harris Bank ATM on South Kingshighway around 7:30 p.m. Police said that two men with handguns approached a woman standing outside of her car making a deposit. The men demanded the woman’s money, and she told police that she screamed for help and which made the men run and jump into a gray car and drive away, without taking her money.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV) -- On celebrities and in social media, when it comes to beauty trends, eyebrows are having their day in the sun but to achieve the look, or even to have any eyebrows at all, more people are turning to tattoos. It’s referred to as permanent makeup. But...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Police responded to 911 calls that over 150 people were fighting at Sky Zone in Fairview Heights Saturday night. At around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Fairview Heights Police arrived at Sky Zone and called for emergency assistance from other police departments in the area. It is...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - St. Louis County Police Department Crimes Against Persons detectives are currently investigating a homicide in the City of Ferguson that resulted in the death of a man. According to a release, City of Ferguson police officers responded to a call for service in the 100...

JEFFERSON COUNTY (KMOV) - Former Jefferson County Prosecutor James Crabtree is set to be sentenced on Tuesday. Crabtree was caught on a recording making sexual advances toward a woman he was prosecuting. The woman had never met Crabtree before and said she started recording the encounter out of fear for...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Crews responded to an early morning garage fire in Milstadt, Ill. Monday morning. A call came out for a fully-engulfed garage fire in the 600 block of South Illinois Street. Reports are that there may be a victim inside. News 4 will update with more...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday the number is preliminary and could change due to data processing time and other reasons. Medical marijuana sales for the same period totaled $4,189,000. Both recreational and medical combined for $12,689,000.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - Polly and Frank Fick recall the joy of finding out they were going to be grandparents, and then just three months after their granddaughter was born they lived through the tragedy of losing their daughter, her husband and 3-month-old Taylor Rose. “I just didn’t want...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - The district instituted the lockdown because of what officials called a suspicious social media threat. The district announced the threat had been investigated, and local authorities do not believe it was credible.

ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – The Saint Louis Zoo has swapped lowland gorillas with Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo to help save the critically endangered species. The Saint Louis Zoo gave the Brookfield Zoo 26-year-old Jontu in exchange for 7-year-old Zachary. The elder gorilla was moved to Chicago based on a breeding recommendation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan for western lowland gorillas.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - The number of short-term rental homes and apartments in Washington, Missouri, keeps growing each year. You can find listings through Airbnb and VRBO. Sal Maniaci is the community and economic development director for the City of Washington. “We’re excited to see that people want to...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - The Rockwood School District is responding to a racist message found at Eureka High School. The superintendent said a video was posted on social media Thursday showing two bathroom stall doors marked as “white” and “colored.”. In a note sent to parents,...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV) - A man was shot and killed near the intersection of South Broadway and Bates Saturday afternoon. Just before 3:30 p.m. police responded to a shooting in the 5600 block of South Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood. Officers discovered a two-vehicle crash in the intersection when they arrived. The driver of a black Pontiac Grand Prix, a 36-year-old man, was suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck. EMS responded and pronounced him dead.