UPDATE: The USGS has revised the earthquake down to a magnitude 3.3 earthquake. It also occurred about 6 miles deep, additional analysis reveals. The Coles-Moultrie County 911 CECOM has not received any reports of damage or calls for assistance from the earthquake, according to an operator we spoke to. LERNA, Ill. (WCIA) - The United [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- Two bison calves entered the world last week when they were born at the St. Louis County Lone Elk Park. The St. Louis County Parks and Recreation announced the reddish-orange calves were born overnight last Tuesday, marking a new chapter for the wildlife park's bison herd. Park officials are advising [...]

ST. LOUIS – This past weekend, police confiscated multiple illegal firearms, including a rifle and auto-sear switch, and arrested a 20-year-old St. Louis man. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s probable cause statement, the incident unfolded in the Peabody–Darst–Webbe neighborhood, just south of the downtown area. Police received word of multiple people wearing [...]

WASHINGTON - Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is warning fellow Republicans that efforts to cut Medicaid could backfire, turning against working-class voters and threatening the party's long-term political future. In an opinion piece published Monday by the New York Times, Hawley argues that GOP is facing an identity crisis, caught between the interests of corporate [...]

MARIES COUNTY, Mo. - A man was left dead and a woman was seriously injured after a UTV crash Monday evening in Maries County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the single-vehicle crash took place shortly after 7:20 p.m. on the 17000 block of County Road 522, north of Rolla, involving a 2021 [...]

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is asking for the public's help with finding two suspects wanted in a Family Dollar theft. Two suspects are accused of shoplifting a Family Dollar store in The Gate neighborhood of St. Louis around 11:30 a.m. on April 27. Police spike dozens of reckless drivers in [...]

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A woman is facing several charges after a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning along Interstate 270 that left two of her children critically injured. According to court documents, Courtney Brown was stopped on eastbound I-270 west of Missouri Route 367 when the vehicle behind swerved to avoid impact, but hit Brown's [...]

MISSOURI - When pilot Kenneth Arnold took off from Chehalis, Washington, in his single-engine airplane one afternoon in June 1947, he was looking for a lost military aircraft that had crashed. But what he found was something completely different—something that would set off a cultural obsession in the U.S. that persists today. While flying around [...]

ST. LOUIS - Former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond died Tuesday in St. Louis at age 86, Governor Mike Kehoe announced. Bond attended Deerfield Academy, a college preparatory boarding school in Massachusetts, and graduated from Princeton University in 1960 with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. [...]

ST. LOUIS - As most major cities, the income residents are needing to bring home to afford rent is steadily increasing compared to five years ago, according to a new report from Zillow. For the Gateway City, the typical renter now should be earning $57,104---which is a 37.4% increase compared to what was needed in [...]