St. Louis

At least 15 children in St. Louis have been killed by guns in the last five months. The city is plagued with searingly high murder rates.

Plans to monitor St. Louis with "spy planes" were denounced at a protest in the city Thursday.

Kelli Dunaway said the book "offers a message of inspiration to anyone embarking on a new phase of life."

"Every day we come in and we've got a plan. But then it rains three inches somewhere overnight where it wasn't expected, and the plan changes," an ag transportation manager said.

Deonte Taylor, 36, allegedly removed a 7-year-old male student from class and took him to another room where he engaged the boy in oral sex in 2015. Three years later, Taylor was charged with hiring a hitman to try to silence the alleged victim and his family.

Almost half of women had to choose between eating or buying sanitary care products.

"James and his team have successfully ended more than 50 ongoing, escalating gun battles between rival gangs right here in St. Louis."

Some of the officers shared messages that expressed excitement about beating up protesters.

"She just threw the book at me."

Authorities said they do not suspect foul play in Raffaella Maria Stroik's death.

"He doesn't understand why his friends were fighting him," one mother, Nicole Merseal, told reporters.

The 20-year-old was buying a meal at Jack in the Box when tragedy struck.

In total, Americans drive across structurally deficient bridges 174 million times each day.

The councilman from Ferguson, Missouri, defeated a prosecutor who was criticized for the way he handled the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

Kenyetta McKinney, 22, of St. Louis, was busted by cops on Friday for child kidnapping, the theft of a car and armed criminal action among other charges, according to her arrest warrant from circuit court.

The couple was initially told they could not purchase a money order "because people like you are doing fraud."

The boy's father called Busch's actions "shameful."

The case against Greitens stems from his admission in January that he had an extramarital affair with his hairdresser.

Frankie Muse Freeman, a civil rights activist and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, has died.

St. Louis is "at a crisis level," Mayor Lyda Krewson said.

Demonstrators were reportedly pepper sprayed and kettled.

The World Jewish Congress says it demanded that Twitter blacklist the hashtag, which recalled the gas chambers used to kill Jews during the Holocaust.

Police critics have noted that Missouri is an open carry state for guns.

After yesterday's not-guilty verdict in the trial of a white police officer, Jason Stockley, in the fatal shooting of a young black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, protests erupted.

Police Officer Jason Stockley was acquitted today in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. Newsweek reviewed court documents and broke down the arguments.

Stockley, a police officer, has been acquitted in St. Louis six years after he shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith.

A judge in St. Louis will soon announce a verdict in the trial of a white police officer who's accused of planting a gun on Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man he shot and killed.

A judge rules people cannot carry their guns into the St. Louis Zoo.

'There is this perception that a black man is automatically feared,' lawyer Rufus J. Tate Jr. says.

Governor Eric Greitens has called a second extraordinary session in his first year in office to discuss stricter rules on abortion.