MISSOURI - Seven bright students from Missouri are set to showcase their linguistic skills at the upcoming Scripps National Spelling Bee championships. The students represent seven different cities in the Show-Me State. Ranging in age from 11 to 14, these young minds are ready to take on the nation's toughest words. This year marks a [...]

ST. LOUIS - Now three years into retirement, Albert Pujols still holds a deep love for baseball, but how he hopes to stay involved with the game in the long-term remains to be seen. One possibility? Becoming a major-league manager. And perhaps, maybe even one day with the St. Louis Cardinals franchise that brought him [...]

ST. LOUIS – Two St. Louis area doctors appeared in federal court in the past two months and admitted committing health care crimes. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Dr. Asim Muhammad Ali, 54, admitted to performing health care services for Medicaid patients of Psych Care Consultants, LLC, [...]

"For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home," Simon Van Booy wrote in his 2011 novel "Everything Beautiful Began After," and what better way to find the cities that might feel like home than to get lost? Travel beckons, and there are many great cities to explore in the [...]

RIVERVIEW, Mo. - A dispute over an "online joke" has escalated into a free speech controversy involving an Illinois man and the mayor of Riverview, Missouri. The City of Riverview recently issued a subpoena over the joke, and now the man behind it is fighting back. On Tuesday, the Institute for Justice, a national civil [...]

ST. LOUIS – Five men and two women have been charged with tampering or stealing wiring in neighborhoods devastated by the May 16 St. Louis tornado. According to probable cause statements from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the crimes took place in three different neighborhoods: May 22: 4400 block of Natural Bridge Avenue (Penrose) [...]

As law officers search Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape and became known as the “Devil in [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are to kick off a special session Monday to consider aid for tornado victims and a package of financial incentives aimed at keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals from leaving the state for new or improved facilities in neighboring Kansas. Gov. Mike Kehoe announced the special session [...]

ST. LOUIS - Local grocery chain Schnucks will launch a personal care item collection drive and a "Round Up at the Register" campaign over the next several weeks to support St. Louis-area tornado victims. Starting Wednesday, May 28 and continuing through Friday, June 6, all St. Louis-areaSchnucks stores will hold a personal care item drive. [...]

ST. LOUIS - City leaders in St. Louis are set to consider two bills on Tuesday aimed at helping families recover from the devastating EF-3 tornado. The EF-3 tornado hit parts of St. Louis on May 16 and left five people dead, along with many homes unlivable. As families in St. Louis work to rebuild [...]