ST. LOUIS - Saint Louis University received a grant from Missouri Foundation Health, amounting to $538,431, which will go toward research to improve the health, education and well-being of children and their families.  Spearheaded by Hisako Matsuo and Jessica Barreca, SLU’s research team announced that it will begin its research project to discover innovative ways [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The flooding in Eureka is changing how some people will cast their vote Tuesday.  Crews spent the day monitoring rising water near Twin Rivers road and Highway W. Both roads were closed by floodwaters from the Big River. It is impassable in Jefferson County, right outside Eureka. City officials say [...]

ST. LOUIS – A teenager is recovering at the hospital after being shot overnight outside her home in the Hyde Park neighborhood. According to a statement from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting happened shortly before 12:20 a.m. outside an apartment. Police did not provide a more specific location. Officers arrived to find [...]

SALEM, Ill. – Several people are out of their homes after flash flooding in Salem, Illinois. Leslie Tate and her kids were forced to evacuate as water poured into their Salem home on Friday. "I had taken them out and then came back to get my dog and what not and barely got out the [...]

ST. LOUIS – A teenager is in custody following a carjacking and high-speed chase across St. Louis on Sunday. According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, the carjacking happened at 10 a.m. at the BP gas station in the 200 block of East Grand Avenue in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood. The victim, [...]

ST. LOUIS - It is America saves week in the country, and the St. Louis City Treasurer’s office, Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE), is offering workshops and webinars to help locals have better financial literacy. “Financial literacy is an important issue,” says Robbo Brilliant, a recording artist.  “Especially in the entertainment. It’s easy bringing it [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - Highway 141 is closed under Interstate 44 due to floodwaters over the road.  Drivers can still get on and off of Interstate 44 in both directions, but they cannot travel on highway 141 underneath the interstate. Fenton resident Christian Compton said while this is an inconvenience, it’s not as bad as [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Three U.S. Representatives from Missouri ranked in the top 20 for most effective legislators, according to a policy think tank that looks at how individual lawmakers are effective at their jobs. U.S. Congressman Sam Graves, R-Tarkio, came in at number one overall out of 435 members of the U.S. House. The [...]

MADISON COUNTY, Ill. – A former teacher in the Triad School District will have a detention hearing Tuesday afternoon on charges that he spent months attempting to groom an underage student. According to charging documents obtained by FOX 2 News, two students in the district reported on Oct. 7, 2024, to school officials that teacher [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) pushed for tougher legislation Monday as it held its first-ever candlelight vigil inside of the Capitol’s rotunda in response to deaths caused by drunk driving. “This is to bring awareness to the dangers of impaired driving,” said Tabitha Perkins, Missouri executive director [...]