ST. LOUIS - You may remember Octavio Dotel from his time with the Cardinals, playing for a record 13 teams in the majors, but in 2011, he found himself on a championship team in St. Louis. The veteran right-hander joined the team midway through the season and quickly became a bullpen hero. Dotel threw scoreless [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Polls have closed across Missouri for today’s general municipal election, and several key races are now in the process of being decided. The St. Louis City mayoral race, one of the most closely watched contests, features a rematch between Mayor Tishaura Jones and 8th Ward Alderwoman Cara Spencer. Jones, seeking a second [...]

Editor's note: This video is from March 10, 2025 FREEBURG, Ill. - An Illinois House Bill, which seeks to prohibit disability mascots, has moved its way to the Senate, following a 71-38 vote. For its third reading, the Illinois General Assembly met on April 8 to discuss HB 3527, which was filed by Representative Maurice [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - This is as close as we’re getting today to the dens at the endangered wolf center; it’s puppy season and FOX 2 is learning more about that and the dire wolf. Just off Highway 44 in Eureka, one can take a trip down a gravel road at the Endangered Wolf [...]

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis man labeled a “persistent predatory sexual offender” will spend the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty Tuesday to new child sex crimes. The crimes occurred between Oct. 15, 2023, and Jan. 1, 2024, at Jeffrey Jones' Dutchtown apartment. Jones admitted committing sex acts on two boys, [...]

ST. LOUIS - FOX 2 has seen a few sightings of hummingbirds in Missouri and Illinois as spring returns and the weather starts to warm. "The first Hummingbirds are called 'Scouts'—hummingbird scout’s—so they're scouting out areas of possible food sources and the Scouts are just now starting to show up south of us," said Steve [...]

ST. LOUIS – Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch political reporter Nicholas J.C. Pistor died Tuesday from health complications after a sudden illness. He was 43. Pistor loved his hometown of Millstadt, Illinois, the Cardinals, and trying to crack a joke whenever he had the opportunity. While a soft-spoken and often quiet man, Pistor’s crude but never [...]

PINE LAWN, Mo. - For weeks, trash has piled up in a Pine Lawn driveway after a company bought the house and started renovating. Frustrated neighbors put FOX 2 News in touch with Alderwoman Dionne Jones. "She has to deal with the smell of this, the fact that people come in late at night, late [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – The head of a homeowners association for a private lake community in Jefferson County is in hot water for allegedly attacking a new resident last fall. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office's probable cause statement, the incident occurred on Oct. 20, 2024, at the Valle Lake community off Highway V. [...]

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – On Tuesday, a Madison County associated judge sentenced a 26-year-old man to consecutive life sentences for stabbing his adoptive father and spouse to death. Bryce V. Andrews was convicted in February following a bench trial on four counts of first-degree murder, one count of aggravated arson, one count of offenses relating to [...]