Zachary Hovis, 24, of St. Peters, pleaded guilty last year to selling a dose of fentanyl that killed a woman in 2019.
Officers were called just before 10 p.m. to an apartment building in the 700 block of Carr Street, police said.
CLAYTON — A man on Thursday was charged with shooting and killing his dad in Overland.
The victim, Devin C. Smart of St. Louis, was pronounced dead at the scene at about 12:15 a.m. Thursday.
Sheriff Alfred Montgomery says former sheriff Vernon Betts and his staff took files and cabinets, furniture, keys, books and other vital information on their way out the door earlier this week.
The ruling came hours after lawyers for state and county leaders again argued the case, this time in front of the Eastern District Missouri Court of Appeals.
At one point in the video, someone is shouting, "Drop it, drop it." The Leadington, Mo., officer who fatally shot the man told investigators he had ordered the man to drop his gun.
The $330,111 settlement dates to a 2018 attack.
Belma Johnson, 83, was found in his garage after his house caught fire in the 9200 block of Riverwood Drive. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
They were discovered about 11:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 1200 block of McCasland Avenue.
Frank Williams sued the Ferguson-Florissant School District on Monday, claiming he was unjustly removed from his post as principal in the wake of several student fights in early February.
St. Louis police said several off-duty officers from other departments were working secondary at The Wheelhouse and were attempting to break up a large fight outside the bar.
Alfred Montgomery, a former deputy who unseated St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts in a contentious Democratic primary, filed for the restraining order Tuesday afternoon.
Darryl K. Tyson is currently being held in the St. Charles County Jail. His bond is set at $1 million, cash only.
City homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman in her 70s that was found dead Monday in the back of a home in Dutchtown, police said.
Ashley Hogan, 35, was killed just after 2:30 a.m. at the intersection James S. McDonnell Boulevard and Banshee Road in north Berkeley.
Page argued that if the court affirmed the judge's ruling, it "would not only upend long settled practice, but would cast a shadow over the legitimacy of currently serving prosecutors."
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The victim’s mother said Clarence Brown and her son had been friends for about five years and knew each other from school.
The woman was found near an abandoned house in the 3800 block of Virginia Avenue, police said.
Police said they were called Dec. 19 at about 4 p.m. to the 8400 block of Water Street.
St. Louis County police said they were called at about 11:20 p.m. to the intersection of Gravois Road and Laclede Station Road.
The administrative upheaval in the St. Louis city schools, Wesley Bell's defeat of Cori Bush and passage of an abortion rights measure are among the major local and Missouri stories this year.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a teenage boy who had been shot in his stomach. Officials have not released the teen's name.
Below is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch coverage of children who have been injured or killed by gunfire across the St. Louis metropolitan area in 2024. The children are 17 years old or younger.
Police said Britney Hoffman-Kelly, 32, is believed to have been murdered and her late husband, Chadwick Kelly, is considered to be a suspect in the case.
The county argues that St. Louis County Circuit Judge Brian May was mistaken when he ruled a county prosecutor is a state officer, not a county officer.
The crash happened a fe minutes after midnight just west of Earth City in the highway's westbound lanes, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.
Kevin Ward and his fiancé were visiting his dad, Harold Luster, on Christmas Eve in High Ridge when police say Luster shot his son once in the head.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell also points to what he describes as a government cover-up that included possible grand jury leaks and illegal document tampering.
