ST. LOUIS > Toddler dies after crash • Bella Houston, 19 months old, died at a hospital at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday from injuries suffered as a passenger in a car that hit a tree and a home in the 7100 block of Idaho Avenue the day before, police said. She lived in the Arnold area. The car, driven by a woman, 47, crashed about 9:15 a.m. Monday on the Loughborough Avenue exit from Interstate 55. The car hit a sign, stairway and tree before flipping and coming to rest against a home. Officials did not release the driver's name or condition.

EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version gave an incorrect age, provided by police, for Bella Houston. The story has been corrected.

ST. LOUIS > Dead man left at hospital • Police were working Wednesday to determine the identity of a dead gunshot victim dropped off at the emergency room of Barnes-Jewish Hospital about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday. He appeared to be in his 30s. Officials also were trying to determine where the killing occurred. Moments earlier, police received calls about shots heard in the 5000 block of Page Boulevard.

EAST ST. LOUIS > Fleeing driver killed • Kendell T. Lewis, 39, was killed in a one-vehicle crash while leading Brooklyn police in a pursuit about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. No one else was injured in the incident, on St. Clair Avenue west of North 17th Street. Illinois State Police said Lewis, of O'Fallon, Ill., apparently rammed a Brooklyn police car in fleeing a traffic stop. The officer called for an ambulance about two minutes later. Lewis' Ford Focus hit a utility pole and flipped onto its roof, throwing Lewis partly from the car. St. Clair County records show Lewis had convictions for numerous traffic offenses and crimes that include domestic battery, fleeing police, driving on a revoked license and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He also had an arson conviction in Kentucky.

HARTFORD > Worker killed at refinery • A welder was killed in a fall at ConocoPhillips' Wood River Refinery on Tuesday afternoon. Madison County Coroner Stephen Nonn said Bradley D. Edmund, 38, of Taylorville, Ill., was working on a tank at 3:55 p.m. when he fell from a scaffold about 48 feet to the ground. Edmund died at the scene. He was employed by Matrix Service Co., a contractor. Nonn said the fall is under investigation by Hartford police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY > Missing coins returned • Authorities said Wednesday that six Civil War-era coins stolen from the Museum of Transportation last month have been returned anonymously. Officials were not disclosing details but said no one had been arrested. A museum spokeswoman declined to comment. A silver dollar and five gold coins dating between 1849 and 1862 and believed to be worth nearly $19,000, were discovered stolen June 12. They were on loan from the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colo., and had been part of the traveling exhibit, "Money of the U.S. Civil War." Investigators said there was no evidence of a break-in. Police were making arrangements to send the coins back to Colorado.

ST. LOUIS > Man admits threat, having machine guns • Lowell Aughenbaugh, 48, arrested last year after a 12-hour standoff, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to making an interstate threat and illegal possession of machine guns. He admitted threatening his wife and others in a phone call to her in Rolla, Mo., in 2009, when they were in the midst of a divorce. Aughenbaugh, of Odell, Ill., could face 30 to 37 months in prison at sentencing Oct. 5. He still faces a charge in Phelps County of making a terrorist threat. When federal agents attempted to arrest him at a waste oil refinery he owns in the Chicago suburb of McCook, Ill., it sparked a 12-hour standoff that eventually escalated to the use of robots, tear gas and a fire hose and ended when agents cut a hole through a wall to reach him. After Aughenbaugh's arrest, he said he thought he was part of a sleeper cell militia. He received a mental evaluation and was found competent for trial.