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A former teaching assistant at Saint Louis University appeared in federal court Thursday to admit blackmailing a student he once dated.

The national mental health crisis hotline, 988, is unavailable as of 4 p.m. EST Thursday due to a systemwide outage.

A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes. These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions.

An infant died after ingesting fentanyl last month in north St. Louis County. Three adults now face criminal charges in her death.

A man living in the Metro East region of Southern Illinois is facing child pornography charges.

Missouri will receive nearly $200 million to improve broadband access through the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund.

A suburban St. Louis police officer who shot into a fleeing car, seriously injuring the driver, has been sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to give up his police officer's license.

The results of a Missouri audit show that there are problems with St. Louis' current water system, and suggest that customer rates should increase.

An investigation is underway after a man died in a Belleville crash Wednesday evening.

A man will spend 25 years in prison over a 2020 retaliatory drug murder in the Dogtown area of St. Louis City.

A new music event known as the Evolution Festival is coming to St. Louis in 2023. The festival is planned from Aug. 26-27 at Forest Park.

Grammy Award-winning R&B artist SZA is representing St. Louis on her new album cover. Specifically, the Blues hockey team.

A Missouri Lottery player purchased a $50,000 Powerball ticket at Schnucks Market, 1060 Schnucks Woodmill Plaza in Town and Country, for the November 7 drawing.

The winner of the Missouri Lottery Scratchers prize of $100,000 had a dream that she would win a significant amount of money before she actually did.

Tickets for Morgan Wallen's 2023 One Night at a Time World Tour go on sale on Friday, December 9.

On the day known as "Giving Tuesday," more than 170 people gathered at the Anehueser-Busch Biergarten in St. Louis to celebrate a common commitment to the community.

Police are investigating a deadly shooting Thursday morning at Interstate 55 near South Broadway in St. Louis City.

A new rehab center is opening in south St. Louis County. It's replacing the existing Mercy Rehabilitation Services within Mercy Hospital South.

Thursday morning's Board of Aldermen meeting is the first with the new board President, Megan Green. She fills the position formerly held by Lewis Reed, who resigned in a corruption scandal.

St. Louis County Police Detective Antonio Valentine was killed in the line of duty one year ago, on December 1.