Missouri

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Three St. Charles County residents have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a forced labor case. Venkatesh Sattaru, 38, was sentenced Thursday to 50 months in prison. This sentence is to run concurrently with a five-year sentence he received in state court for a domestic assault charge. Sattaru had pleaded guilty to confiscating or concealing immigration paperwork while obtaining the labor or services of a person by means of serious harm or threat

BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. – Police are searching for a suspect who appeared to “bear crawl” across a business during a burglary in Bellefontaine Neighbors. According to the Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department, the theft occurred during the overnight hours of Sept. 22 at Gateway Market, located in the 9300 block of Bellefontaine Road.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - What started as a rescue call for Wentzville Fire Protection District ended in a kitten finding his forever home. The district said that the rescue happened a couple of weeks ago. A firefighter/paramedic, Jordan Grassmuck, crawled into a sewer to rescue a kitten who had his paw stuck in a crack. Grassmuck had to use a hammer and carefully chisel away at the crack until the kitten became free.

Missouri voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to bolster the state’s main tool for direct democracy , a key vote that would wrestle power away from the state legislature. The measure, called Amendment 6 , seeks to strengthen Missouri’s initiative petition process , a century-old form of direct democracy that allows citizens to collect signatures and pass laws. The proposal would restrict state lawmakers from overturning voter-approved laws, ban the General Assembly from weakening the state’s petiti

For pregnant women living north of Interstate 70 in central Missouri, there weren’t many places to deliver a baby. Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall was one of them.  Now it isn’t.  Fitzgibbon delivered 252 babies in 2025. In April, the hospital filed for bankruptcy protection and began sale negotiations for its 60-bed hospital and its 99-bed […] The post A new owner took over central Missouri hospital. 9 days later, it cut labor and delivery appeared first on The Beacon .

CLAYTON, Mo. – A computer facial recognition program led police to a man who was arrested and then released 17 months later. That man is now suing not only police, but also Amazon Web Services for supplying the program that allegedly picked him out. FOX 2 News first reported...

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Gang culture in Missouri reflects a broader societal issue that intertwines elements of crime, socio-economic factors, and the legal response to these challenges. This...

The $405 million contract is part of a planned $2.8 billion project that will add a lane of traffic in both directions from Wentzville...

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson used a racial "dog whistle" when referring to the suspects in the Super Bowl parade shooting as "thugs," Kansas City's...