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 - 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 – 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 – 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 [...]

MISSOURI - While Missouri is known as the "Show Me State," it's also been deemed the "Cave State" as there are around 7,500 caves, according to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources---and two of them were voted as some of the best in the country. According to Newsweek, Bridal Cave in Camdenton and Mark Twain [...]

ST. LOUIS – St. Louis police are investigating a carjacking in which one of the perpetrators used a broken glass bottle to steal a vehicle. According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, the theft happened around 8 p.m. in the 4700 block of Anderson Avenue, located in the city's Penrose neighborhood. Police said [...]

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis woman is accused of abusing animals at her home in the city’s Hill neighborhood. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, an officer was dispatched to the 5400 block of Bischoff Avenue on the morning of April 6 for a separate incident. While responding to [...]