ST. LOUIS — Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in north St. Louis is where Deborah Walton found the strength to turn her life around. “I was out on the streets doing drugs,” she said.  The church was one of the first in the St. Louis area to partner with the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis [...]

ST. LOUIS - The district has hired about 200 of the 243 drivers needed for the upcoming school year, implementing a new plan with Zum that includes updated routing technology and real-time tracking. The new transportation plan aims to improve safety and efficiency with features such as cameras inside buses and a parent app for [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – St. Louis County Police made an arrest Monday in a nearly two-year-old case. As FOX 2 found out, locals say the place where this event happened is a hotspot for road rage incidents. The incident happened near the corner of Jennings Station Road and Halls Ferry Road. Shaheim Mims is [...]

CROCKER, Mo. – The Missouri State Highway Patrol confirms it has reopened an investigation into a 2022 overdose death after concerns with how a small-town police department handled the case. Now, a Wildwood couple is hoping it can finally get answers three years after their son died. Jeffrey Pratt Jr. died in Crocker, Missouri, in [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - St. Louis County Police released their critical incident briefing today, further detailing an officer-involved shooting back in March 2025. The incident occurred after a license plate reader flagged alleged suspect Eddie Washington's car in relation to a separate event surrounding an officer in Caseyville, Illinois, who was assaulted.  And according [...]

(The Hill) — Qatar Airways is set to announce that it secured an agreement to purchase 150 aircraft from Boeing while President Trump is in Doha on Wednesday, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to NewsNation. Trump will travel from Saudi Arabia to Qatar in the early afternoon on Wednesday, local time, and participate [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Health (IDPH) reported its first mosquito pool in the state, testing positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). IDPH says the results came in yesterday, May 12. These reports—coming from the city of Rockford in Winnebago County—are also the first time the virus was reported this year.  “The news [...]

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo.  – St. Charles City-County Library, the Middendorf-Kredell Branch, reopened today, following a 10-month renovation project. The renovation project was around $2.9 million, with improvements also being made to the library’s parking lot, carpeting, rood and HVAC. Visitors can also look forward to seeing new children's area entrances, rooms and larger bathrooms.  [...]

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2’s investigation into the St. Louis Sheriff’s child transports has taken a twist, as we discovered the latest transport happening in an unmarked sheriff’s car. Last month, FOX 2 showed you a uniformed sheriff’s deputy picking up the sheriff’s children from school in a marked government car. Attorney Bevis Schock told [...]

CASEYVILLE, ILL. - With the summer heat rolling around, local ice cream shop Dairy Haven took to social media this morning to warn customers of their standing cash-handling policy. In a Facebook post, Dairy Haven manager Joshua Hill wrote, “If money is seen being pulled from anywhere other than a pocket, wallet, purse, satchel, murse… [...]