Saint Louis, MO

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ST. LOUIS — The three Lake St. Louis police officers injured in a crash on Interstate 70 Wednesday morning are improving but remain in the hospital more than a day after the crash. In an update posted to the Lake St. Louis Police Department's Facebook page early Thursday afternoon,...

Lake St. Louis police offer update on officers injured in Wednesday morning crash

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police launched a homicide investigation Monday morning after a shooting left one person dead and another injured. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, officers received a call about two people shot just before 9 a.m. Monday in the alley behind the 3000 block of Iowa Avenue.

South St. Louis shooting leaves woman dead, man injured

Illinois State

Alton, IL

ALTON, Ill. — An Alton, Illinois, man was convicted Friday of a 2021 triple shooting that nearly cost a woman her leg. According to a press release from Madison County State's Attorney Thomas Haine, 36-year-old Steven Foster was found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and multiple other crimes. The release said Foster will face a minimum sentence of 93 years when he is sentenced at a later court date.

Man found guilty of 2021 triple shooting in Alton

ST. LOUIS — Civil attorneys for a former St. Louis police officer who was shot by a fellow officer are asking a federal judge to reopen their case now that the city’s deputy director of public safety gave them new evidence, according to court filings. Deputy Public Safety...

'I’m blaming the police department': Former St. Louis officer shot by fellow officer wants civil case reopened with new evidence

Missouri State

Troy, MO

TROY, Mo. — There's some new information on an almost 40-year-old homicide cold case. The remains of a person found in Troy, Missouri, in 1984 were linked to a man that disappeared in 1982, detectives announced Wednesday. Jack Langeneckert of Florissant was the victim of a homicide, forensic scientists...

Man identified after his body was found in Troy, Missouri, 38 years ago

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis homicide detectives are investigating a shooting that left a man critically injured Saturday afternoon. According to an incident report from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, a 58-year-old man was in critical condition after a shooting at about 1:40 Saturday afternoon. Police said officers...

Man in critical condition after Saturday afternoon shooting in St. Louis

Saint Louis County, MO

Pacific, MO

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A crash involving multiple vehicles late Monday night on Interstate 270 in St. Louis County left a man seriously injured. According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, a 62-year-old Pacific, Missouri, man was driving his SUV northbound on I-270 just before 11 p.m. Monday when he struck the back of a tow truck that was parked in a construction zone.

1 seriously injured in construction zone crash on I-270 in St. Louis County

Tennessee State

ST. LOUIS — This week's Vintage KSDK takes us back to April 4, 1968, and our coverage of the tragic day civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. St. Louis and the country was plunged into grief. Stores and businesses closed in...

Vintage KSDK: How St. Louis responded to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

ST. LOUIS — A family is asking for help after a trailer filled with important items the family saved after last July's historic rainfall was stolen. Surveillance video obtained by 5 On Your Side shows a driver stealing the trailer from the front yard of the Boshans family's old home on Saturday morning just past 2 a.m.

St. Louis family's trailer filled with personal items stolen after flood forced them from home

Nashville, TN

ST. LOUIS — The world watched Monday morning as news broke about a former student storming a Nashville elementary school and fatally shooting three students and three staff members. For some in St. Louis, the tragedy was chillingly similar to the shooting that happened last year at a local...

St. Louis reacts to Nashville school shooting months after its own

ST. LOUIS — We're learning more about the victims of a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. Some of them have relatives with ties to the St. Louis area. Three children and three adults were killed in the shooting on Monday. It happened at a private Christian school, where the shooter was a former student.

2 of the Nashville school shooting victims have ties to the St. Louis area

ST. LOUIS — On Tuesday, the Saint Louis Zoo Emerson Zooline Railroad debuted its new electric train. The new train joins six other locomotives and is the zoo's first electric train, using less gas emission and more sustainable resources. The train features a green locomotive at the front and...

New electric train debuts at the Saint Louis Zoo

Ferguson, MO

FERGUSON, Mo. — One person was seriously injured Monday night after being struck by a car in Ferguson. The crash happened at about 10:30 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Chambers Road and Joyce Ellen Lane. There, a white Ford van struck a pedestrian and drove off, according to the Ferguson Police Department.

Pedestrian suffers life-threatening injuries after Ferguson hit-and-run

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis could soon start a comprehensive process to rewrite its charter document for the first time in more than a century. When city voters head to the polls on Tuesday, they'll see a "Proposition C" on their ballot asking if the city should create a Charter Commission for the first time since 1949. That effort ultimately failed when voters rejected the proposed changes, which left the original 1914 document in place.

St. Louis voters could create commission to update 109-year-old city charter

Hazelwood, MO

HAZELWOOD, Mo. — The Hazelwood Police Department asked for the public's help in finding a missing 25-year-old man. Police said Tristan Malik Baumer's mother last saw him at about 6 p.m. Sunday when he left Motel 6, located at 5781 Campus Court in Hazelwood, to smoke and never returned.

Hazelwood police looking for missing 25-year-old man

Tuesday is Municipal Election Day in Missouri, and many important issues and positions are on ballots across the St. Louis area. Missouri voters will head to the polls Tuesday, April 4 to voice their opinion on a wide variety of local issues and candidates. Unlike the general election in November,...

April 4 election: What you should know to vote in Missouri

Jefferson County, MO

Imperial, MO

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. — The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a series of car thefts and rummaging through unlocked cars that happened over the weekend. It happened in an Imperial neighborhood just off Highway 55. Early Saturday morning Imperial resident Brad Bowen got a wake-up call he...

Jefferson Co. Sheriff's Office urges people to lock cars after weekend thefts

ST. LOUIS — Businesses all across Cardinal nation applied the finishing touches Wednesday for opening day. Crews made adjustments to buildings and planted flowers throughout the plaza at Ballpark Village St. Louis. Ballpark Village CEO Mike LaMartina stressed you cannot start a season without a plan to keep those...

St. Louis police ramp up security measures for Cardinals' opening day at Busch Stadium

ST. LOUIS — Missouri’s state attorney general is investigating gender-affirming care provided by Planned Parenthood, according to a lawsuit filed by the St. Louis health provider. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri sued Attorney General Andrew Bailey Friday in St. Louis Circuit Court, according...

Planned Parenthood sues over transgender care investigation

ST. LOUIS — A city board is considering incentives for a new $26 million affordable housing development on scattered sites in south St. Louis. Prospective redeveloper Marquette Homes Partners LP, an affordable housing venture from Lutheran Development Group and Rise Community Development, wants to build or rehabilitate 11 buildings into 60 new residential units scattered over 13 sites in the Gravois Park and Dutchtown neighborhoods, according to plans filed with the city.

Affordable housing project in south St. Louis seeks incentives for historic rehab, new construction

Wisconsin State

ST. LOUIS — None of the St. Louis-area chefs, restaurateurs or establishments named as semifinalists for the 2023 James Beard Foundation Awards have advanced to the next round. Three chefs, a trio of restaurateurs, a bakery and a bar were named semifinalists for the culinary world’s top prize in...

St. Louis nominees do not advance in 2023 James Beard Foundation Awards

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — The St. Louis city and county health departments are sending out a warning when it comes to food that shoppers and even restaurant owners may have purchased from a University City supply store. Officials say some products were improperly stored, causing a potential health risk....

University City seafood store ordered to shut down over contamination risk

ST. LOUIS — A judge has set an initial hearing date for the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit seeking to remove St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner from office. Judge John Torbitsky has scheduled a case management conference for April 18 and “all motions pending before the court at that time will be heard.”

Judge sets first hearing date for Missouri attorney general's lawsuit to remove St. Louis circuit attorney from office

ALTON, Ill. — The Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau presented plans for a brand new Piasa Park redevelopment Tuesday afternoon at Alton City Hall. The Piasa Park redevelopment, along with a new Byway Discovery Center, is part of a $10 million Illinois Capital Grant Development Project. “It’ll welcome...

Plans for redeveloped Piasa Park and visitor center underway in Alton

Chicago, IL

Waverly, IL

ST. LOUIS — The largest solar energy project in Illinois will be built by a St. Louis-based construction company. Des Peres-based McCarthy Building Cos. is the engineering, procurement and construction contractor on Swift Current Energy’s Double Black Diamond solar panel project that will be built in Waverly, Illinois, in Sangamon County about 45 minutes south of Springfield, Illinois. The massive array, with 1.6 million solar panels, will provide renewable energy to the city of Chicago and Illinois companies such as Bloomington-based insurance company State Farm.

St. Louis-based construction company McCarthy will build Illinois' largest-ever solar energy project

Arkansas State

ST. LOUIS — As severe spring weather approaches, here are a few reminders from the American Red Cross. Make sure you put together an emergency preparedness kit that has everything you and your family would need if you lost power for a couple of days. Here are some things you should include in your kit:

How you can prepare for severe weather this spring

ST. LOUIS — It's been almost four years since Kassie Specht's newborn went straight to the NICU. "My son Easton is 3-and-a-half years old, and he was born at 32 weeks premature. We spent about 50 days at Cardinal Glennon, right around like October of 2019," Specht said. "I needed March of Dimes."

'It really helped empower me': March of Dimes St. Louis works to better health outcomes for moms and babies

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2 injured early Monday in north St. Louis shooting

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...

2 injured early Monday in north St. Louis shooting

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