Safety

“You have people that they’ve been coached to be concerned with basically Amazon’s belongings," one worker said. "That doesn’t make any sense to me. The response should simply be to seek shelter immediately.”

Police departments in St. Louis and St. Louis County are trying to deter illegal firework use this Fourth of July. Last year, St. Louis police issued just…

Kea Wilson has heard her share of complaints about the so-called “Ingrassia balls” recently installed in her south city neighborhood along Compton…

Local, state, and federal transportation departments have teamed up with local police, Amtrak and the nonprofit organization Operation Lifesaver in a…

A Missouri state representative from St. Louis County is launching a coalition to prevent the shooting deaths of children who find a loaded weapon in the…

Sitting in a hot car can be uncomfortable for adults — but for children it can be deadly. A law Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed this month by aims to keep…

What’s it like to live in fear, every day? To know you’re a target just by being yourself? To understand that being attractive could kill you?Ka’Milla…

Brightly-colored tires simulating flower beds popped-up along a two-block stretch of Gasconade Street Saturday in the Dutchtown neighborhood of south St.…

Updated at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 20 with approval of money.The Board of Estimate and Apportionment approved $39,000 of the proposed $50,000 for the minority…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 20, 2013: WASHINGTON - When two freight trains collided in southeast Missouri last month, the…