Saint Louis MO

ABERDEEN, Miss. (WCBI) – Two Mississippi school superintendents and a St. Louis school teacher have entered guilty pleas to Federal Embezzlement charges. Earl Joe Nelson, who served as Superintendent for the Clarksdale Municipal School District and later the Leake County School District, and Monekea Smith-Taylor of...

The identity of the woman killed in a Saturday night shooting in Belleville was confirmed Monday by the St. Clair County Coroner’s Office. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. said Shenandoah Burton, 18, of Swansea, was pronounced dead shortly after midnight Sunday in the emergency room at Memorial Hospital in...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (First Alert 4) -A woman was taken into custody after a man was shot and killed in Belleville on Monday night. Officers were called to the 600 block of State Street shortly before 8:30 p.m. for a report of a man who had been shot near the entrance to a home. The man was later pronounced dead.

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The St. Louis County Police Department has released video of an officer-involved shooting in Maryland Heights. The fatal shooting happened at the Walgreens in the 12500 block of Dorsett on Nov. 30, 2025. According to police, officers were called to the Walgreens for...

ST. LOUIS — A woman was found dead in north St. Louis, and police are now investigating her death as a homicide. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, officers responded to a call for a "person down" just after noon Monday in the 3800 block of Cook Avenue. Officers found a woman not conscious or...

The man identified as the mastermind behind an audacious and wide-ranging but low-tech bank fraud scheme perpetrated in communities throughout Southern Illinois and other states has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison. Prosecutors say that from March through May 2023. Traveon Reese, 31, of Atlanta, Georgia,...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. St. Louis, Missouri – A rare Midwest earthquake early Tuesday, Jan. 20, is now heightening awareness across Missouri and Illinois as an intense surge of Arctic air drives temperatures sharply lower,...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — A shooting Monday night in Belleville left one person dead. According to the Belleville Police Department, officers responded at about 8:20 p.m. Monday to a shooting in the 600 block of State Street. Upon arriving, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound near the entrance of a home.

BRIDGETON, Mo. — A national off-price retailer of apparel, accessories and home decor is filling a vacant storefront in north St. Louis County with its ninth area location. Burlington Stores announced Friday that it will open one of its stores in Bridgeton this spring, at 11978 St. Charles Rock Road, in the Hilltop...

There’s a little slice of literary heaven tucked away in Webster Groves, Missouri, where the magic of books comes alive in ways that chain stores could never replicate. The Novel Neighbor isn’t just a bookstore – it’s a community sanctuary where bibliophiles, casual readers, and the merely curious can discover worlds...