A St. Charles man is accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail at a St. Charles apartment building after spotting what he believed was a racist symbol in the window, police say.

Marquis Q. Dukes

Marquis Q. Dukes, 19, of the 1400 block…

Arson is the cause of an early morning fire in an apartment building in St. Charles County.

A small fire was reported just after 3 a.m. in a laundry room at the Pralle Meadows Apartments on Sugar Maple Lane (off Pralle Lane near…

Assistant Chief Rich Oney (left) and Captain Dave Lewis of the St. Charles Fire Department talk at the scene of a fire Wednesday. (Joel Currier / P-D)

ST. CHARLES - Police and firefighters are investigating a fire at a home business…

Another little twist in the suspected arson fire on Tyndale Drive in O’Fallon.

Joel Vanderploeg

Pattonville Fire District firefighter Joel Vanderploeg was recognized by mayoral proclamation at Thursday’s O’Fallon City Council meeting for leading a man and a woman out of the burning…

Remember that garage fire Shane Anthony blogged about last Friday?

It was arson, say police. And a 21-year-old woman from O’Fallon is accused of torching her car inside her garage while her ex-boyfriend and his girlfriend were asleep in the basement…