ILLINOIS – On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said a tired bus driver was the primary cause of the deadly Interstate 70 bus crash in Highland, Illinois. But investigators also found three tractor trailers illegally parked on the shoulder of the exit ramp to the Silver Lake rest area contributed to the crash. [...]

CLAYTON, Mo. – Cedric Gerald’s bond will stay at $1 million cash-only after a bond reduction hearing on Thursday. "Mr. Gerald is facing some extremely serious charges. It's our position that he's a danger to the community as well as a flight risk," St. Louis County Prosecutor Melissa Price Smith said. Last week, Gerald was [...]

ST. LOUIS - Only on FOX 2: the remarkable story of a St. Louis teen, determined to get to her grade school graduation just two hours after Friday's tornado hit her neighborhood. The staff at Lafayette Preparatory Academy (LPA) kept her 33 classmates and a crowd of about 300 waiting for Monica Phillips, 14, to arrive [...]

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ST. LOUIS – Nearly a week after deadly tornadoes ripped through Missouri, thousands are still without power. And while Ameren Missouri crews are working around the clock, frustration is growing for those still in the dark. In the heart of north St. Louis, the work is far from mover. Ameren Missouri crews are still on [...]

ST. LOUIS - FOX 2 had the opportunity to meet with both Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe and St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer today for updates on the recovery efforts in the city. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has arrived in the city to assist in the disaster evaluation, following the extreme weather that hit [...]

ST. LOUIS - Block by block in north St. Louis, they’ve been going up and down, taking pictures of the damage from the tornado. “And they go block by block to look at all the homes that have been affected,” said Ryan Lowry-Lee, FEMA Public Affairs. What that is is a preliminary damage assessment to [...]

EUGENE, Mo. - Snakes on a plane? Try snakes in a car. Or as one Missouri family recently learned the hard way, a snake popping out of a car hood mid-drive. LeAnna Binkley was driving her son to baseball practice one day in Eugene, Missouri when she locked eyes with a "sneaky passenger." Specifically, a [...]

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A former executive at the Bank of O'Fallon in Illinois admitted in court on Monday to obtaining more than $2 million through a fraud scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of Illinois, Andrew Blassie, 69, served as the bank's executive vice president while he defrauded [...]

ST. LOUIS – On Thursday afternoon, Ameren Missouri gave two different updates on its power restoration efforts in north St. Louis following the May 16 tornado. The first update, posted on social media just before 1 p.m., said crewmen had restored power to more than 200,000 customers since that day – more than 90% of [...]