Police this afternoon identified a man killed early Saturday in a fiery head-on crash with a tractor trailer as Kyle Lauders, 20, of O’Fallon, Mo.

Investigators suspect Lauders had been drinking alcohol before the 3 a.m. crash on westbound Highway 40…

Improvements to Highway DD will be finished before the end of 2010, state officials said today.

Kevin Keith, chief engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, sent a letter to County Executive Steve Ehlmann saying the state would accelerate improvements to the…

Prosecutors this afternoon charged a St. Peters woman with two felonies for a fatal crash that happened in May.

Ashley P. Matthews

Ashley P. Matthews, 24, of the 1100 block of Spencer Road, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and felony assault. Investigators…

An O’Fallon, Mo., man pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from a drunken driving crash that killed a Wright City man.

Investigators said in February that Chad Frazer was drunk and driving at least 100 mph when he slammed into a car…

Annette Jansen, (silhouetted at left) watches a video tribute to her husband Grant Jansen, a St. Charles police officer killed last year in a car crash. (Photo by Joel Currier / P-D)

St. Charles Police Officer Grant Jansen, who was killed…

Judith Ulery (Courtesy of Pitman Funeral Home)

The St. Louis Crime Beat blog has an update on Judith Ulery, 63, of New Melle. She and her mother were crushed by a bulldozer that fell off a truck’s flatbed on July 8.

Ulery has…

A public memorial tribute is planned on the one-year anniversary of the death of St. Charles police officer Grant Jansen.

At 7 p.m. Sept. 10, a ceremony will be held in Frontier Park in St. Charles. It will be called “Light…

Sister Elaine Lamm

St. Charles County Prosecutor Jack Banas said today he isn’t filing charges against the driver in a crash last month that killed an O’Fallon, Mo., nun and injured another.

Banas said the driver, a 52-year-old woman from O’Fallon, was…

Jared Vierling, 22, who was severely injured in a five-vehicle crash on St. Patrick’s Day, was moved out of the intensive care unit at St. Louis University Hospital over the weekend and is now listed in serious condition, a hospital…

Casey Doss

Casey Doss is back behind bars.

Last week, Doss, 19, was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a car accident. Police said Casey ran off Westwood Drive and hit some trees in an April 9 crash that injured…