FOX 2 📺

At the capitol of Missouri Emily Manley is dedicated to political news. Manley is the Missouri Chief Capital Bureau reporter for Nexstar Media, and her job is to cover news about the state's capital.

Hundreds showed up for the opening day of the Illinois State Fair on Thursday, but some were surprised to find that a lot of the rides were closed. The Illinois Department of Labor shared that due to the heavy rain on Wednesday, they weren't able to finish inspecting the rides.

The Mid-America Carpenters Union's Apprenticeship Program is holding its first graduation in over 20 years Friday.

The 4th annual 'Tunnel to Towers Holes Fore Heroes' Golf Classic tees off Friday in Waterloo, Illinois.

You can chow down while listening to music Saturday.

You can listen to the sounds of the blues at the Gateway Arch this weekend. The 'Blues at The Arch' Festival starts Friday night.

St. Louis County Parks and Recreation's 3rd annual 'Touch-A-Truck' event is Friday.

Artisans in The Loop is reopening Friday.

KidSmart is hosting its 'Big Backpack Build' giveaway Friday at Ballpark Village.

A leading trade organization is suing Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft over new rules targeting "woke investing."

St. Louis firefighters were busy overnight battling two vacant house fires.

Police are investigating a break-in at a gas station early Friday morning in the Central West End.

An impactful round of storms is expected into the early hours of Saturday. A few of these storms could be severe, producing large hail, damaging winds, and the chance of a tornado.

A job fair Friday is aimed at helping the hundreds of workers who lost their jobs when the South City Hospital abruptly closed one week ago. However, those laid off workers aren’t the only ones who can benefit from Friday’s event. The St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment, or 'SLATE,' is hosting the job fair.

The film "Oppenheimer" is generating a lot of interest in the Manhattan Project and St. Louis' involvement in the development of the atomic bomb. This comes just one day after the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, signaling the end of World War II.

An elected official is apologizing for using a slur about sexual orientation during a public meeting in St. Clair County, Illinois.

KTVI is celebrating its 70th birthday as a television station. We began broadcasting on Aug. 10, 1953, as WTVI Channel 54. Two years later, we became KTVI.

Officers with the St. Louis County Police Department were responding to a welfare check Thursday morning at a west county residence when they found the bodies of three people inside.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert Thursday evening for a reported child abduction in St. Louis.

The trial of a former chief of staff to longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan opened Wednesday with a federal prosecutor arguing that the defendant lied under oath to a grand jury to protect his boss.