MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has delayed a $1.2 billion project meant to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes by at least several months, saying he's worried President Donald Trump might not cover the federal government's share of the costs and that it would leave his state on the hook for hundreds [...]

ST. LOUIS – Investigators with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department say a Louis Vuitton bag helped them connect an 18-year-old to a shooting last month in the city's Baden neighborhood. According to a police probable cause statement, the shooting happened on Jan. 12 in the 8800 block of North Broadway. Police said the victim [...]

ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- A warrant is out for an O'Fallon, Missouri, woman's arrest for falsely statingshe and her children had been kidnapped, triggering an Amber Alert in November 2024. According to court documents, Yajayra Molina-Yat, the mother of two young daughters, gave false information to an unidentified person who reported them missing to St. [...]

ST. LOUIS - Missouri schools may call for snow days on Wednesday and Thursday this week, following a major January snowstorm that shut down some districts for an entire week. As snow days pile up, some schools could be scrambling to make up lost time to meet state requirements. When a Missouri public school district [...]

ST. LOUIS – A judge signed a pair of arrest warrants for a mother and grandmother for the 2023 overdose death of a 5-month-old girl. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the overdose happened on Sept. 5-6, 2023, at the Budget Inn motel in the 3600 block of Hamilton Avenue, [...]

ST. LOUIS – Runway 11-29 at St. Louis Lambert International Airport was closed late Wednesday morning after a United Airlines regional jet slid off the runway just after landing. The incident happened at 10:50 a.m. Flight 4427, operated by GoJet Airlines, departed Washington Dulles International Airport. The plane went into a section of grass. The [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A suspected serial rapist from Ballwin is in police custody. But detectives with the St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons believe there may be more victims out there. Yahya Maly According to a police probable cause statement, Yahya A. Maly, 28, raped at least five women [...]

The jury in trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and longtime political confidant Michael McClain sent a note to the judge Wednesday that said they are deadlocked. In the note, the jury said they came to an agreement on 17 counts but were deadlocked on the other 12. "It is our belief this impasse [...]

ILLINOIS - Check your old lottery tickets! There are four Illinois Lottery prizes worth at least $1 million, including one valued at $10 million, that are currently unclaimed. According to Illinois Lottery, the unclaimed prizes include two Lotto drawings, one Lucky Day Lotto drawing, and one Powerball drawing, all of which have been winners since [...]

ST. LOUIS - A man faces felony charges in a St. Louis murder case, nearly two months after the victim was fatally shot near an abandoned house. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office has charged Deandre Maurice Johnson, 31, with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the [...]