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Mark James led the Missouri Department of Public Safety in the early 2000s

The party made no gains in the Legislature, ending the election with 52 seats in the Missouri House and 10 of 34 seats in the state Senate.

The state’s junior senator joins forces with U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, to make government high-tech contracting more competitive.

The warning signs, which began being installed last week, urge people not to dig near the creek because of the presence of “low-level radioactive materials.”

The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department and the municipal forces in Alton, Belleville, Granite City and Madison getting federal funds to upgrade equipment

Nearly 26% of public and charter school students in St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County were chronically absent during the 2023-2024 school year.

Thousands of mentally ill adults in Missouri have spent more than 100 days in a nursing home in the past year. “There’s nowhere for people to go.”

Jonathon Lyles, 33, was held Monday without bond in the Jefferson County Jail.

Embattled personnel director has added former director Rick Frank, who clashed with Mayor Tishaura Jones over hiring a police chief, to the reemployment list for the powerful job.

Maplewood Richmond Heights, Valley Park and Webster Groves are the only three to score higher in English and math this year compared to 2019.

A woman was found dead in the passenger seat of a truck Sunday after the driver exchanged gunfire with Crystal City police, authorities said.

Here is this week's local business awards, expansions, and projects.

Troopers say a 73-year-old man walked into Manchester Road near Tallie Drive at around 7 p.m. and was hit by a 2002 Nissan Exterra, which was driving east on Manchester.

St. Louis County police said they were called just before 10:30 p.m. to the 10500 block of Emerald Ridge Avenue, where they found a man who had been shot.

Here is this week's local business appointments, awardees, hires and promotions.

Justin Collins admitted to holding his girlfriend at gunpoint, pistol-whipping her and then taking her to a park where Collins’ sister hit her with a crowbar.

Paramedics declared the man dead at the scene. He was not wearing a seatbelt.

John Mosley, 37, faces charges of first-degree murder and two other gun-related crimes.

Michael Waller, 64, alleges that he was refused service while attempting to open business accounts at two locations of Commerce Bank in the Kansas City area.

Many laud Pearl Harbor survivors as heroes, but Bob Fernandez doesn’t view himself that way.