There was something especially sickening about three young men being gunned down on Market Street early last Friday.

According to news reports, they had just left a nightclub called Club Society on South 21st Street. Their vehicle was stopped at a…

Debbie lives just a block from where it happened, but didn’t realize at the time that a 20-year-old man had been gunned down on the street the night before. “We didn’t hear a thing,” she wrote in a note on the…

The beat goes on with local violent crime: A 66-year-old Belleville woman was stabbed to death Friday. A 49-year-old man was gunned down at midnight Saturday near Sherman Park on the city’s north side. A U.S. Park Service ranger shot and killed…

On Monday, five people were killed in less than six hours on the streets of St. Louis. Seen from a gated suburban community or a small country town, that may reinforce a view that the city is no place for…