ST. LOUIS - As President Donald Trump’s administration intensifies efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, thousands of federal employees across the country have been laid off or offered buyouts, posing a growing challenge for Missouri and Illinois. Trump’s Executive Order 14210, Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative, outlines a reform of the federal [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The border war to attract Kansas City’s two major sports franchises is taking on a mirror image of sorts. Missouri lawmakers are excited about a proposal designed to provide incentives for major teams to build stadiums in the Show-Me-State. The money behind the Missouri proposal looks a lot like the approach [...]

ST. LOUIS - An investigation is underway after a teenager was shot Saturday afternoon in St. Louis' Penrose neighborhood. The shooting happened around 3 p.m. near the intersection of Shreve and Anderson avenues. Former teacher charged in treatment of non-verbal child One teenage victim was located with a gunshot wound. Police say the teen was [...]

ST. LOUIS - The Missouri Supreme Court has overturned a St. Louis jury's 2022 decision to award $1.3 million to the family of a boy who was struck by a hit-and-run driver in 2019 after getting off a school bus. In October 2019, nine-year-old Dylan Jackson, a fourth-grader at KIPP Victory Academy, was dropped off [...]

ST. LOUIS - One woman is hurt after a fender-bender crash escalated into a shooting Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of a Lee's Chicken restaurant in north St. Louis, police say. The shooting happened around 3 p.m. Saturday in the 6200 block of West Florissant Avenue in St. Louis' North Pointe neighborhood. A police [...]

PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. - Authorities seized nearly 200 suspected fentanyl capsules after a Missouri woman's traffic stop took an unexpected turn earlier this week. Prosecutors have charged Shiniqua Ginell Glover, 33, of Rolla, with one felony count of first-degree drug trafficking in the investigation. According to a probable cause statement obtained by FOX 2, an [...]

ST. LOUIS - The month of March starts with a Mardi-Party for St. Louis! Thousands gathered Saturday to celebrate the return of the city’s annual Mardi Gras parade. Branded as the Bud Light Grand Parade, the event is a dazzling show that makes way from Downtown St. Louis to the Soulard neighborhood along Broadway. Stretching several [...]

KIRKWOOD, Mo. - A train is causing travel delays in Kirkwood on Saturday morning. Gary Baldridge, the PIO for the Kirkwood police called the situation a 'minor train malfunction'. The stopped train is blocking the intersection at Big Bend and Geyer Roads as well as South Kirkwood Road and Grand Avenue. If you are headed [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Police are investigating a deadly shooting in Bellefontaine Neighbors that happened just after 8:20 p.m. Friday in the 10100 block of Maraldo Place. Officers from Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department responded to a call for a shooting and found a man with life-threatening gunshot wounds. The man was pronounced dead at [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - A dry, windy Friday forced officials to issue a red flag warning for much of Missouri and parts of Illinois.  Fire crews were busy, as multiple brush fires broke out across the greater St. Louis area, including in Jefferson County. Video from the Bear Creek Estates Neighborhood in House Springs, Missouri, [...]