UNION, Mo. - All schools in the Union R-XI School District will be closed Friday after a school employee died unexpectedly. Extreme hail, winds, more possible Thursday and Friday The Union R-11 School District announced the closure on their Facebook page, expressing their sorrow over the loss and requesting the community to keep the families [...]

DEFIANCE, Mo. - The Power of Two is live in your neighborhood, Defiance. FOX 2’s Ty Hawkins and Margie Ellisor visit Defiance, highlighting the people, places, and stories that make the area special. Visit FOX 2’s YouTube channel to check out the locations the trio visited while in Defiance.

ST. LOUIS - No injuries were reported after firefighters responded to a house fire overnight Friday morning in south St. Louis. First responders were alerted to the fire around 1 a.m. on the 4000 block of Schiller Place in south St. Louis' Bevo neighborhood. Crews arrived to find flames engulfing the one-and-a-half-story building. Extreme hail, [...]

ST. LOUIS - The concern in the short-term forecast is the severe weather that's expected Friday afternoon. It's a mild Friday morning out there and sunshine will help temperatures quickly climb into the 80s to near 90 F this afternoon. We'll have a very unstable atmosphere as a cold front moves into the region, causing [...]

FREEBURG, Ill. - Austin Beckett is the newest winner of Next Level Chef and his hometown community of Freeburg, Illinois, could not be prouder.  The 32-year-old cook told FOX 2 he began teaching himself to cook as a kid when his mom and dad were often away at work. “When I was at my friend’s [...]

ST. LOUIS — Matt Bramel began volunteering with the Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District in Phelps County when he was a teenager in 1989. “He started as a young boy, as a junior fireman, and rose through the ranks to serve as fire chief for many years,” said Joshua Hall, a family friend.  Bramel recently [...]

ST. LOUIS - Pam Hupp is serving a life prison sentence for murder, with her last breath of free air being when FOX 2 captured exclusive video of her 2016 arrest. That arrest was in response to Hupp shooting Louis Gumpenberger to death in a staged attempt to allegedly divert attention from another murder investigation.  [...]

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Fire Department was alerted to a two-story house burning in the 5000 block of Penrod Thursday evening. First responders reported that the smoke was visible from the first floor, and one line was deployed.  When extinguishing the flames, crew members discovered a deceased male inside the residence. Homicide detectives [...]

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Cecilia Williams has been pushing for law changes since experiencing an unthinkable tragedy in 2021.  Her son, daughter-in-law, and one of her grandchildren were killed by a drunk driver.  “Missouri has an extremely huge problem with impaired driving,” she said. Williams said what’s become “Bentley’s Law” has passed in other states [...]

PINE LAWN, Mo. - Both shootings happened within just three hours of each other — and just a block apart. while police are following up on leads.  Many neighbors say they’re too afraid to speak out. The first shooting happened just before 9 p.m. near Bircher and Oakwood In Pine Lawn. A 32-year-old and a [...]