Five cars in Benton Park were spray-painted with swastikas Saturday; police are investigating and asking for tips. Detectives are reviewing video and canvassing the neighborhood.

A man was arrested after residents reported masked people trying to enter the long‑vacant Railway Exchange; police say a gun and suspected marijuana were seized.

Officers dispersed a planned Fairground Park takeover late Sunday and seized a firearm fitted with a conversion switch. The department posted photos and a short statement to Facebook.

A Normandy resident has been charged after a Spanish Lake shooting left a man critically injured. Authorities say the suspect fired during a verbal argument.

Demario Anderson, 35, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Spanish Lake and is awaiting extradition to Shelby County on a second-degree murder charge.

Prosecutors say a recorded jailhouse phone call led to a second murder charge in a 2024 Baden shooting in St. Louis.

State officials say Operation Relentless Pursuit arrested or assisted in 1,585 fugitives in its first year, clearing 2,699 warrants and seizing 119 illegal guns.

A Franklin County jury found Darren Johnson guilty of multiple child-sex offenses and recommended a 45-year prison term after about three hours of deliberation.

Police say clothing from surveillance helped identify a suspect in the Oct. 17, 2024 Gate District shooting. Prosecutors have filed murder charges and the case moves to court.

Rev. Larry Huber, pastor at Immaculate Conception in Park Hills, died April 9 after a motorcycle crash south of De Soto. Parishioners remembered his energy and service.

A license-plate hit in Divernon, Ill., led regional investigators to a vehicle tied to a burglary crew posing as construction workers; arrests followed in O'Fallon.

A Mercy employee in Creve Coeur was indicted on first‑degree sexual abuse charges after police say he touched a patient with advanced dementia. Mercy says it fired the worker and reported the allegations to state health officials.

A heavy law‑enforcement response is underway in unincorporated Collinsville after a report of a barricaded subject; traffic on Pleasant Ridge Road is affected.