Former Warrenton Police Chief Davis Bernard said today that city officials gave him no reason for asking him to resign.

“I didn’t know I was not doing a good job,” Bernard said. “My impression was that I was terminated. They gave…

A bill introduced at Tuesday night’s St. Charles City Council meeting would increase the pay for the mayor, city council members and the municipal judge.

You can read the text of the bill and the accompanying document by clicking here. It was…

O’Fallon City Hall will lock its doors to the public for an hour Wednesday afternoon so newly-elected Mayor Bill Hennessy can talk privately with employees about the future of the city.

City Hall will shut down from 3 to 4 p.m.…

Wednesday night was a big one for Bill Hennessy.

More than 100 people jammed O’Fallon’s city council chambers to watch as Hennessy took his first oath as mayor.

Hennessy, 51, had taken the oath five times before…

Bill Hennessy

Tonight, O’Fallon, Mo., mayor-elect Bill Hennessy will be sworn in for his first term.

Hennessy, who defeated Jim Frain and Councilman Pierce Conley earlier this month, will take the oath tonight during a 5:30 p.m. special council meeting.

Also being sworn…

Interim Chief Bill Seibert

O’Fallon Interim Police Chief Bill Seibert is pushing for a change in the way the department’s 109 police officers work.

The department currently requires officers work 10-hour shifts, which Seibert says is rare for police departments in the…

It looks like Brian Hodak and his wife Karla, who once had a $1.4 million judgment against the city of St. Peters, now may owe the city more than $34,000 for costs involved with that lawsuit.

St. Peters officials sent a…

O’Fallon’s last police chief has applied to become O’Fallon’s next police chief.

Huh?

Yes, you read that correctly.

Former Chief Jerry Schulte has submitted his application for the open police chief’s job. He could not immediately be reached for comment today.

Jerry Schulte

Two others…

Chet Pleban, a lawyer for O’Fallon City Administrator Robert Lowery Jr., has sent a letter to the City Council claiming Lowery is a victim of retaliation by the council.

In the Jan. 15 letter to all eight council members, Pleban demanded…

Let’s start an unscientific poll here. Just for fun.

Now that politics seem to be heating up in O’Fallon as we approach the April election, I ask you, Chas Beat readers, who is most likely to claim the mayor’s chair?

If the…