The ex-spouses who died in a murder-suicide in a suburban St. Louis mall still lived together two years after their divorce, but their violent relationship led to at least four police visits and both sought court orders of protection, records show.
Some wholesale distributors of Anheuser-Busch products are worried about a backlash now that the St. Louis-based brewery is being sold to Belgian-based InBev.
A published report says a deal is reached for Ballpark Village near Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
Specialty coffees soon will be harder to find around St. Louis. Starbuck's has just released the list of 16 area stores that will be closing.
A fired Springfield police officer is facing a third-degree assault charge for allegedly beating an inmate being booked into the Greene County jail.
A Kansas City man is charged with sexually assaulting a woman when both were patients at a psychiatric hospital.
Drew Peterson's attorneys have withdrawn a motion seeking to block efforts by his third wife's family to file a wrongful-death lawsuit.
Two former college students who were convicted in the death of a Bradley University soccer player have been released from jail.
Police say a runaway 13-year-old girl from the southern Chicago suburb of Lynwood led officers on a chase from Lynwood to Chicago after stealing a prisoner transport van returning her from Parke County, Indiana.
No charges will be filed against a St. Louis homeowner who shot and killed a man who attacked him with a steel pipe.
It likely will be weeks before St. Louis County prosecutors decide whether to file charges against a truck driver who slammed into stopped traffic, causing a massive pileup that killed three people and injured 15, authorities said Thursday.
Securities regulators from several U.S. states, investigating Wachovia Securities' auction rate securities sales practices, went to the company's St. Louis headquarters Thursday and requested its documents and records.
A divorced couple who died in a murder-suicide inside a suburban St. Louis mall had a violent relationship that prompted at least four police visits and each to seek orders of protection against each other, court records show.
Illinois officials hope schoolchildren, churches and businesses will take part in next year's celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.
It likely will be weeks before St. Louis County prosecutors decide whether to file charges against a truck driver who slammed into stopped traffic, causing a massive pileup that killed two people -- including a metro-east man -- and injured 16, authorities said Thursday.
Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis wants to be clear: Any talk by Gov. Rod Blagojevich that crime in the city is "out of control" is just plain wrong.
In paying $52 billion for Anheuser-Busch because of the strength of the Budweiser and Bud Light brands, InBev SA will also be inheriting the King of Beers' weaknesses -- which might only worsen when ownership of the largest U.S. brewer shifts into foreign hands.
The brother of a man suspected in the slayings of eight people in Illinois and Missouri has been indicted on a charge of concealing a homicidal death and obstruction of justice.
SPRINGFIELD-- The Illinois House voted Wednesday to reverse about $480 million in budget cuts imposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich, although there's little chance the money will ever reach the hospitals, drug abuse programs and mental health services for which it's earmarked.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday raised the possibility of bringing in state troopers or even the Illinois National Guard to help Chicago combat a recent increase in violent crime -- an offer that Mayor Richard Daley didn't know was coming.
