Editor's note: This clip is from May 19, 2025 PARK HILLS, Mo. – The St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department is continuing its investigation into the death of 3-year-old Conrad Ashcraft. Ashcraft, a boy with special needs, died at the Poppy’s Playhouse 2 daycare earlier this month.  According to a FOX 2 report, the Missouri Office of Childhood [...]

ST. LOUIS - Officials are attempting to remove debris and downed trees in the aftermath of the May 16 tornado. All those trees destroyed by the tornado are winding up at St. Louis Composting’s city location, north of downtown. “(A) lot of things going on here,” said Patrick Geraty, president and owner of St. louis [...]

ST. LOUIS - FOX 2 returned to the Academy neighborhood, where we’ve taken you three straight days. FOX 2 noticed one extraordinary constant—volunteers. Every day since the May 16 tornado, regular citizens have answered the call. Like two families from Town and Country and Dardenne Prairie. Watchdog group calls for St. Louis Sheriff’s removal over [...]

GRANITE CITY, Ill. - After a harrowing crash that left a St. Louis medical helicopter in flames in April, the ARCH 1 crew is back in the air and is on a mission to save lives.           After weeks of recovery, investigation and training, they're back and determined to continue their lifesaving work from above. “We [...]

FLORISSANT, Mo. - The owners of six homes in Florissant are likely to be offered buyouts due to radioactive contamination. City officials have been made aware of a potential planned buyout of six homes in Florissant's Cades Cove subdivision, according to a statement from Florissant Mayor Timothy Lowery. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers previously [...]

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Board of Aldermen approved a bill to provide tornado victims with a property tax rebate.  Friday morning, the board passed board bill 24 to help ensure that homeowners who lost their home in this month’s tornado will get some property tax relief.  Their taxes will be eligible for a [...]

TROY, Mo. - The Troy (Missouri) Police Department is asking for the public's help after someone allegedly threw a homemade firebomb into a vehicle earlier this week, a case authorities described as "a deliberate act of arson." Police responded to a vehicle fire around 1 a.m. Monday on Creekwood Boulevard. Investigators later determined that an [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- A Florissant man has been charged with two counts of burglary after allegedly breaking into two apartments on Tuesday. Police said the man has been arrested multiple times before for home burglaries and touching the feet of the victims. According to court documents, Anthony Scott, 22, burglarized two apartments at [...]

ST. LOUIS - A Franklin County couple admitted to filming and producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) of a 1-year-old. The couple, William Burns, 41, and his wife, Rachel Burns, 34, both pleaded guilty in May in relation to the disturbing crimes. Court documents say the couple was arrested back in 2023 by the University [...]

ST. LOUIS -- Two men were shot and killed in the city's Walnut Park West neighborhood on Tuesday. St. Louis Metropolitan Police responded to a shooting around 3 a.m. on Tuesday in the 6000 block of Thekla. When they arrived, they found Shiquan Washington, 24, and Donovan Whitt, 37, both suffering from gunshot wounds inside [...]