Drug detainee is forced psych meds during 6-year pre-trial lockup

ST. LOUIS - A detainee has been forced to take psych medications during a 6-year pre-trial lockup. “My husband gets four different types of anti-psychotic medications injected into him every month,” Keayona McDonald said about her detained husband. “He can’t do anything about it." Lamar McDonald has been locked up for about a third of [...]

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Lincoln County tackling households effected by problem drugs after infant death

ST. LOUIS - After a 49-day-old baby died due to drug exposure in Lincoln County, six people accused of the murder pleaded not guilty. Dillon Clark, Gabriel Clark, Adam Hausermann, Evan Hausermann, Selena Rodriguez, and Shawna Walton are all facing charges after an autopsy revealed the child died from fentanyl and meth exposure.  Lincoln County [...]

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How delivery drivers are braving the frigid temperatures

ST. LOUIS – With temperatures plunging into the single digits, many workers are braving the bitter cold to keep our city running. From law enforcement to emergency responders, construction crews, and delivery drivers—like those at St. Louis Pizza & Wings—essential workers are pushing through these dangerous conditions to get the job done. We followed delivery [...]

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Child found unresponsive in Midtown hotel pool dies

ST. LOUIS – A young girl died Tuesday days after being found unresponsive in a hotel swimming pool. According to a St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson, the incident happened shortly before 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Element St. Louis Midtown in the 3700 block of Forest Park Avenue. Hotel staff informed police that [...]

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St. Louis residents brave icy obstacles as temperatures drop

ST. LOUIS - On the coldest day of the new year, ice is the major obstacle to maneuver for everyone in the greater St. Louis area, but some souls are brave enough to face these low temperatures. Between treacherous, icy-covered sidewalks and frozen mounds of snowy ice that could cause a hubcap to come off, [...]

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Collinsville woman found dead in her driveway Tuesday morning

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - The Major Case Squad has been activated after a woman was found shot dead in a driveway on the 1300 Block of Olive Street in Collinsville, Ill. More than two dozen detectives, along with the Major Case Squad, are working on this case to uncover the details of this tragic occurrence Tuesday morning.     [...]

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Proposed compromise over Rams settlement money lauded by city leaders

ST. LOUIS - History may have just been made in the City of St. Louis. St. Louis's mayor, aldermen, and Greater St. Louis Inc., which promotes economic growth in the St. Louis region, praised a compromise to spend more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the 2021 $790 million legal settlement with Rams [...]

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Contact 2 questions city officials about emergency rental assistance program

ST. LOUIS – Kristie Shackelford is hanging on by a thread. “It’s hard to feel like I have so much to give, but I don’t feel like my world around me values me,” Shackelford said. Despite working four jobs, the single mother of three teenagers says it's still not enough to meet their financial needs. [...]

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Fire at abandoned bowling ball factory in Jennings

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – Firefighters with the North County Fire & Rescue Fire Protection District responded to a three-alarm fire late Tuesday morning at the site of an old bowling ball plant in Jennings. Firefighters received word of heavy smoke pouring from the abandoned building in the 8700 block of Xograph Avenue around 11:30 [...]

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Gold Star family from Wentzville meets Trump, Vance inauguration weekend

WASHINGTON – A Gold Star family from Wentzville was in Washington, D.C. for the inauguration of President Donald Trump. U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz was among 13 troops killed in the Abbey Gate attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021. He was 20. His parents, Mark and Jaclyn Schmitz, and the near dozen other [...]

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