ST. LOUIS – A Tennessee man wanted for a 2024 murder was arrested over the weekend following a brief police pursuit that culminated in a wild crash. The crash happened Sunday evening in the 4100 block of St. Louis Avenue, located in the Greater Ville neighborhood. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable [...]

MISSOURI -- On Monday, President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration request for the affected Missouri counties during the May 16 tornado, opening applications for federal assistance. The city of St. Louis estimates nearly 10,000 buildings were damaged, with $9 million in state funding already secured for urgent demolitions. Those impacted by the tornado [...]

REYNOLDS COUNTY, Mo. - A Bunker, Missouri, motorcyclist died Sunday afternoon after striking a vehicle head-on while in a no-passing zone on Highway 21. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the crash occurred at 3:05 p.m. on Highway 21, two miles north of Ellington, involving a Honda VTX motorcycle and a Chevrolet Silverado. [...]

NOTE: Video is from a February 2025 FOX 2 report. ST. LOUIS - The Missouri Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions and prison sentence of Daniel Riley in a February 2023 crash that left out-of-town teenager Janae Edmondson with life-altering injuries. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals signed a majority opinion to affirm [...]

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. - Your backyard fruit trees could bring in some extra cash this spring and summer, if you're growing the right kind. The Missouri Department of Conservation is offering to buy wild red mulberries and plums from residents as part of its "early seed buy season." MDC will purchase red mulberry at at $6 [...]

Note: The video attached to this article is a Dec. 2023 WGN NEWS report on the Brighton Park migrant shelter. CHICAGO (WGN) — A controversial tent city for migrants that never opened will cost state taxpayers $1.3M despite not being used and Gov. JB Pritzker's pledge that the state wouldn't be on the hook. A [...]

MISSOURI -- If it seems like Missouri has already had an unusually high number of tornadoes this year, you are correct. The state of Missouri has already seen double the yearly average of tornadoes only halfway through the year, according to the National Weather Service. The NWS shared on X that the state has had [...]

ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis Circuit Court judge signed an arrest warrant for an Illinois man accused of stealing copper wiring in a south city neighborhood. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the theft occurred on May 7 in the 3100 block of Texas Avenue in Benton Park West. [...]

Project ICECHIP, the first major U.S. hail study in more than 40 years, is capturing real hail data to improve forecasting, product standards and roofing resilience amid rising hail-related losses.

ST. LOUIS – Three men remain jailed following two separate investigations into wire theft in tornado-damaged neighborhoods in north St. Louis in recent days. According to probable cause statements from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the thefts occurred June 4 and June 6. In the first incident, a police officer was working a disaster [...]