ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - North County Police Cooperative was contacted on March 6 by a local hospital about a two-year-old who had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. By the time officers arrived at the hospital, the child and mother, Taiesha Campbell, had been transferred to another hospital. According to the North County [...]

LEBANON, Ill. – Tearful residents in Lebanon, Illinois, are expressing outrage over a recent cleaning at College Hill Cemetery that they say went too far, resulting in the removal of gravesite tributes that had remained on some gravesites for years. In the parking lot outside City Hall, a dumpster held flowers, wreaths and mementos cleared [...]

FREEBURG, Ill. - A long-standing mascot tradition in Freeburg, Illinois, could soon come to an end, as a new bill in the Illinois General Assembly would ban school mascots that reference disabilities. For nearly nine decades, Freeburg High School has proudly been the home of the Mighty Midgets. While some say the name is outdated [...]

ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis woman has helped write a state bill that would force insurance companies to offer support for people impacted by gun violence just like her.  Precious Jones has seen it multiple times: gunshots hitting her home, and in 2022, her son, Preston Jones, died when a gunshot came through his [...]

Editor's note: This clip surrounding Alzheimer's is from 2020 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri’s State Capitol dome will glare purple tomorrow, March 11, in recognition of the state’s awareness of Alzheimer’s, Governor Kehoe announced today.  Set by the state’s legislature for the second Tuesday in March, Missouri Alzheimer’s Awareness Day, seeks to enlighten those surrounding [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's attorney general is threatening to seize Chinese assets across the U.S. to collect $24.5 billion awarded in a lawsuit against China stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts were skeptical Monday, with one saying, “Good luck with that.” China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said this week that it does not recognize [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A 2021 GMC Yukon was recently recovered by police 10 days after being stolen. The owner, Angie Waggoner, picked up the vehicle from impound on Monday. It doesn’t look much different from the outside; inside, it is a wasteland. Waggoner said she found “…about 15 cell phones, five or six [...]

ST. LOUIS - Federal agents arrested a Mexican national in the St. Louis area on Monday approximately two weeks after being indicted on child sex crimes. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri announced that Giovanni Falcon, 40, was indicted on Feb. 26 with transferring obscene material to a minor and coercion [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The Missouri Senate gave its final approval to a public safety measure that would give control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to a governor-appointed board of police commissioners. The proposal now awaits likely approval from the Missouri House. After a string of amendments and changes to appeal to more [...]

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis man accused of fatally shooting a teenager and another person is going to state prison after pleading guilty Monday to reduced charges. Arnaud Jones, 43, was slated for a jury trial this week for the Sept. 30, 2022, killing of Corion Love. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police [...]