ST. LOUIS - FOX 2 had the opportunity to meet with both Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe and St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer today for updates on the recovery efforts in the city. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has arrived in the city to assist in the disaster evaluation, following the extreme weather that hit [...]

EUGENE, Mo. - Snakes on a plane? Try snakes in a car. Or as one Missouri family recently learned the hard way, a snake popping out of a car hood mid-drive. LeAnna Binkley was driving her son to baseball practice one day in Eugene, Missouri when she locked eyes with a "sneaky passenger." Specifically, a [...]

ST. LOUIS - Block by block in north St. Louis, they’ve been going up and down, taking pictures of the damage from the tornado. “And they go block by block to look at all the homes that have been affected,” said Ryan Lowry-Lee, FEMA Public Affairs. What that is is a preliminary damage assessment to [...]

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A former executive at the Bank of O'Fallon in Illinois admitted in court on Monday to obtaining more than $2 million through a fraud scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of Illinois, Andrew Blassie, 69, served as the bank's executive vice president while he defrauded [...]

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - Midwest Wingfest will not return in 2025 due to safety concerns, the festival announced on social media earlier this week. The event—always held in Fairview Heights—shut down early in 2024 as fights and gunshots were reported.  Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Daily [...]

ST. LOUIS – On Thursday afternoon, Ameren Missouri gave two different updates on its power restoration efforts in north St. Louis following the May 16 tornado. The first update, posted on social media just before 1 p.m., said crewmen had restored power to more than 200,000 customers since that day – more than 90% of [...]

ST. LOUIS - City leaders are working around the clock to provide residents with the latest updates on cleanup efforts and federal resources.  According to Mayor Cara Spencer, building inspection teams are putting stickers on doors, informing residents about the condition of their home.  "We want to assure you right now that it is not [...]

ST. LOUIS – A would-be car clouter has been charged in connection with a shooting earlier this month in south St. Louis that resulted in his cohort’s death. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the shooting happened around 2:30 a.m. on May 2 in the 6300 block of Vermont Avenue, [...]

ST. LOUIS - Nearly one week after a devastating tornado struck St. Louis – killing five people and damaging thousands of buildings – city officials are focusing on recovery efforts and pushing for any available federal assistance. The May 16 tornado caused an estimated $1 billion in damages in the City of St. Louis. While [...]

ST. LOUIS – Saint Louis University wants to pay you to catch the flu. The university’s Center for Vaccine Development is recruiting people for a study into pre-existing flu immunity in healthy adults. “By the time we are adults, we have been infected with the flu many times,” said Daniel Hoft, M.D., Ph.D., director of [...]