O’Fallon, Mo., may hire a new law firm to handle all aspects of the city’s day-to-day legal services, labor issues and court battles.

Historically, O’Fallon’s city attorneys have been approved based on recommendations by top officials. Because of a challenging budget last year, officials said they wanted…

UPDATE ON TUESDAY: St. Charles schools are closed today, and the community meeting planned for tonight at Harris Elementary has been canceled. The next planned meeting is Feb. 17 at Coverdell Elementary.

Surveys for parents, school district employees and community members…

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A New Melle police sergeant sent numerous explicit text messages to an elementary school teacher and pulled a Taser on her at her classroom, prosecutors say.

Terry G. Calahan, 39, of the 3800 block of…

ST. CHARLES COUNTY - Investigators say they have no suspects in the Jan. 30 stabbing of a  Lake Saint Louis man outside Prairie View Elementary School.

Sheriff’s Lt. Craig McGuire said the man, 26, was driving down Feise Road about 9:30 a.m. (a Saturday when…

ST. PETERS - A suspicious device found inside the kitchen area of the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in St. Peters this morning prompted the evacuation of the eatery and surrounding businesses, police said.

A restaurant manager found the item inside a…

St. Charles police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person who robbed the Red Roof Inn, 2010 Zumbehl Road, on Jan. 30.

Police said a man wearing black gloves, a black hoodie, black…

Dustin W. Buescher, 29, of the 1900 block of Via Veneto Drive in St. Louis County, was sentenced today to three years in prison for on-line e-mails he sent this summer to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

Dustin W.…

Action on legislation to repeal a pay boost scheduled next year for some St. Charles County Council members will be delayed.

The sponsor of the repeal bill, Councilwoman Cheryl Hibbeler, D-O’Fallon, had planned to introduce the measure at the next council meeting…

Steven A. Hicks, 23, formerly of St. Charles County, was sentenced today to eight years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a Defiance woman.

Steven A. Hicks

Hicks was eastbound on Highway DD near Diehr Road on Jan. 19,…

O’Fallon-based MEMC Electronic Materials’ top executive is refusing a $500,000 bonus. The money instead will go to retrain laid-off workers. Read about it in our Mound City Money blog