The case of a homeless man named Robert Phillips and his beagle Freddy drew a great deal of attention here. Today, nearly a year after Phillips was beaten during an argument, the second of two homeless people who assaulted him…

An O’Fallon, Mo., man was sentenced Monday to attend a St. Charles County in-custody treatment program.

We wrote earlier about the case of James P. Conley, 29, who was accused of tearing off part of a man’s ear during a fight in…

School bus violence has been all over the news in the last week. Today’s edition of the Post-Dispatch features a story surveying several school bus drivers for their reactions to the recent attack of a student on a bus in Belleville.

Here’s…

James P. Conley

Police say an O’Fallon, Mo., man bit part of another man’s ear off during a fight Sunday.

James P. Conley, 29, of the 2500 block of Breezy Point Lane, was charged Monday with second-degree assault.

Police say Conley came to…

A St. Charles County jury reached a guilty verdict this afternoon in the trial of a man accused of going for a St. Charles police officer’s gun during a fight in June.

Brian M. Lyde, 25, was arrested after a struggle…

ST. CHARLES - A New Year’s Eve gathering soured when a St. Charles man refused to return another man’s hooded sweatshirt, then punched him in the mouth wearing brass knuckes, police say.

Andrew Spann, 20, of the 1400 block of Hawk’s…

Fast cars, booze and children are a recipe for trouble, police say.

In two separate criminal cases filed in the past week, two men are accused of crashing their vehicles down embankments with their kids riding inside.

In the first incident, authorities…