Note: The video attached to this article is a Dec. 2023 WGN NEWS report on the Brighton Park migrant shelter. CHICAGO (WGN) — A controversial tent city for migrants that never opened will cost state taxpayers $1.3M despite not being used and Gov. JB Pritzker's pledge that the state wouldn't be on the hook. A [...]

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. - Your backyard fruit trees could bring in some extra cash this spring and summer, if you're growing the right kind. The Missouri Department of Conservation is offering to buy wild red mulberries and plums from residents as part of its "early seed buy season." MDC will purchase red mulberry at at $6 [...]

NOTE: Video is from a February 2025 FOX 2 report. ST. LOUIS - The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and prison sentence of Daniel Riley in a February 2023 crash that left out-of-town teenager Janae Edmondson with life-altering injuries. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals signed a majority opinion to affirm [...]

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant for an Illinois man accused of stealing copper wiring in a south city neighborhood. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the theft occurred on May 7 in the 3100 block of Texas Avenue in Benton Park West. [...]

MISSOURI -- If it seems like Missouri has already had an unusually high number of tornadoes this year, you are correct. The state of Missouri has already seen double the yearly average of tornadoes only halfway through the year, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS shared on X that the state has had [...]

Project ICECHIP, the first major U.S. hail study in more than 40 years, is capturing real hail data to improve forecasting, product standards and roofing resilience amid rising hail-related losses.

ST. LOUIS – Three men remain jailed following two separate investigations into wire theft in tornado-damaged neighborhoods in north St. Louis in recent days. According to probable cause statements from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the thefts occurred June 4 and June 6. In the first incident, a police officer was working a disaster [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Crews are on the scene after reports of a water main break Monday morning in Berkeley. The main break took place at the 6300 block of James S. McDonnell Boulevard, outside of the Boeing Headquarters building. According to a spokesperson for Missouri American Water, the main break involves a 12-inch [...]

ST. LOUIS – The last in a trio of people who committed COVID-19 pandemic-related unemployment fraud and stole dozens of identities along the way appeared in federal court on Friday to be sentenced. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Daryl Jones Jr., 46, pleaded guilty in February to [...]

ST. LOUIS – A man remains in critical condition after being shot overnight in the Central West End neighborhood. According to a spokesperson for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting happened around 3:15 a.m. in the 10 block of South Taylor Avenue. Police found the 33-year-old victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. EMS [...]