Saint Louis MO

ST. LOUIS – Five people have now admitted to stealing mail from St. Louis-area collection boxes three years ago through an elaborate $2.2 million scheme. Roderick Orlandez Walker, 26, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy, two counts of mail theft and one count of possession of stolen mail.

The founder and owner of a St. Louis area non-profit, intended to feed low-income families, has admitted to a $2.3 million student meal fraud. She was sentenced Thursday to 41 months in prison.

COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — The man convicted of shooting and killing a Metro East woman in a murder-for-hire plot in 2025 will spend the rest of his life in prison. In March, 46-year-old Gary D. Johnson was found guilty on both counts of first-degree murder in the death of Portia Rowland outside a Collinsville home in January 2025. On Thursday, he...

LaPez Mod Mex has taken over the former Session Taco corner in the Central West End, bringing the Tilford brothers’ polished, wood-fired spin on Mexican cooking to Euclid and McPherson. The menu leans into seafood and big flavors, with plates like duck confit taquitos and bacon-fat fried lobster tacos, while the room glows under perforated tin stars and a Day of the...

A federal judge in downtown St. Louis on Thursday, April 23, 2026, sentenced Cymone Shanae McClellan to 41 months in federal prison after she admitted steering more than $2 million out of a state program that was supposed to feed low-income children. McClellan, who founded the Sisters of Lavender Rose nonprofit, was also ordered to forfeit houses and vehicles and to repay program...

ST. LOUIS — Windows at a downtown St. Louis office tower have been shot out again, with six plywood coverings visible Thursday. It marks another such event at 701 Market St., long known as Peabody Plaza, the 15-story building just west of Kiener Plaza. The St. Louis Police Department...

Sonic The Hedgehog Speed Café, a pop-up eatery inspired by the iconic SEGA video game franchise, will open Friday at the Delmar Loop.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A jury found a St. Louis man not guilty of murdering another man at a party, but found him guilty of illegally possessing a gun. Turley Smith, 32, was found not guilty on Wednesday of first-degree murder and armed criminal action for the death of Percy Bowman, 44, on March 15, 2025, according to the 22nd Judicial...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A former North County police chief and city administrator was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Thursday after he stole from the same residents he swore to protect. Daniel Paulino was not chatty after getting 27 months in federal prison...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - St. Louis City detectives are looking for a man who pointed a handgun at an off-duty officer last week. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said that on April 15, an off-duty police officer not affiliated with SLMPD spotted a man waving a handgun on the corner of North Ninth Street and Olive Street.