SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Police found over 20 wild animals alive and dead inside an Illinois home where a child was living. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources said the Illinois Conservation Police were investigating this situation for a year before they obtained a search warrant Tuesday for a DeKalb County home in the 1000 block [...]
GLEN CARBON, Ill. - Officers from the Glen Carbon Police Department successfully assisted a woman Wednesday in giving birth to her child. A call was made to 911 at 3:30 p.m. from an address on Lucinda Drive for a woman in active labor. The baby was born just six minutes later. Telecommunicator Kelsey Overholtz dispatched [...]
UPDATE: Due to inclement weather, tonight’s Sunset Fridays concert with BagLunch & The Salamander Slide at 370 Lakeside Park has been cancelled. ST. PETERS, Mo. - The three-day holiday weekend fun begins tonight. Things get started in St. Peters where the sunset Friday concert series is bringing the music for your holiday weekend. Bag Lunch [...]
CLAYTON, Mo. - The Republican candidate for St. Louis County Executive has filed to officially take her name off the ballot. This may mark the end of a surprising and sometimes confusing campaign. Court officials tell FOX 2 that Katherine Pinner was representing herself this morning when she appeared before Judge Dean Waldemer in Division [...]
HERCULANEUM, Mo. - Every Friday in September, FOX 2 spotlights high school football, but before the night games, the PEP ZONE team is ready to fire up the fans! FOX 2's Chris Regnier was in Herculaneum Friday morning getting a taste of the Black Cat spirit! The football team, the cheer team, the band, and [...]
SWANSEA, Ill. - A worker was killed at Century Castings Corporation in Swansea, Illinois Friday morning. The Swansea Police Department said a 59-year-old man was crushed by hydraulic machinery at approximately 6 a.m. Police said officers arrived at the scene within one minute of the emergency and "ran towards the victim and the large machinery. [...]
ST. LOUIS - An accident happened late Thursday night in north St. Louis. A driver lost control and crashed into a tree at Halls Ferry Circle and Lewis and Clark Boulevard. No injuries have been reported. FOX 2's Nissan Rogue Runner reporter Nic Lopez was at the scene.
ST. LOUIS - MoDOT and IDOT are looking ahead to winter and want to hire full-time winter maintenance workers. Applicants must be at least 18 and have a commercial driver's license. MoDOT also says "come for the snow, stay for the mow." Jobs start with winter snow plows but continue into the spring with grass mowing.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The Kirkwood School District is set to break ground Friday morning on new construction at Nipher Middle School. They plan to build four new classrooms and a connecting corridor. The funding comes from Prop R. It was approved by voters last spring.
ST. LOUIS - SLU researchers are enrolling volunteers in the second stage of a COVID vaccine trial. They're testing a second-generation of shots. They're looking for healthy volunteers over 60 years old who have already been vaccinated and boosted once. For more information or to sign up for the study, email vaccine@slu.edu.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Friday is the last day for COVID-19 tests at the North Central Community Health Center. The St. Louis County Health Department said that's because of low use. Free saliva PCR test kits will still be available for drive-thru pick-up at the John C. Murphy and South County Health Centers, but the hours [...]