Updated: Jul. 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter, Shoshana Stahl and Gray News staff
One of the teens accused of killing five people and injuring two others in a mass shooting in East St. Louis appeared in court for the first time on those charges.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2026 at 11:51 AM CST
|By Rheanna Wachter
The death report for a man who died in a Missouri jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been released.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM CST
|By First Alert 4 Staff and Rheanna Wachter
Multiple buildings caught fire overnight last Friday, with firefighters continuing to battle flames hours after the initial call.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter and Avery Martinez
Bill Rowe has been birdwatching for over half a century, but birds are not the only thing he’s witnessed: changes to the landscape and its inhabitants have fluctuated over the years — some for better and some for worse.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter and Avery Martinez
Wetlands and floodplains have been rapidly depleting across the United States, and many of the plants that once thrived in the turbulent environment of floodplains are now facing a harsher reality.
Updated: Aug. 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter and Avery Martinez
he Midwest is heavily associated with farming and agriculture, but it wasn’t always that way. Over the decades, a turn towards creating farmland in Missouri and Illinois created irreversible changes in the landscape and the presence of the things within it.
Updated: Aug. 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter, Lucas Sellem and Dorothy Sedovic
Two people were killed when a helicopter on a barge in the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois.
Updated: Dec. 11, 2024 at 4:46 PM CST
|By Rheanna Wachter and Emily Van de Riet
A woman is suing Sleep Number after she said a bed caused her mother’s death.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2024 at 11:33 AM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is urging aquarium owners to check for an invasive species that may be hiding in a common tank addition.
Updated: Aug. 12, 2024 at 7:35 AM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter, Jon Kipper and Gray News staff
Police said a man drove a vehicle into a duplex, which then caught fire. They said a woman and a girl were found dead in the wreckage.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2024 at 10:30 AM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
A suspect in a double murder case near Chicago, Illinois, was arrested near the Gateway Arch early Friday.
Updated: Apr. 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter, Kalie Strain and Emily Van de Riet
Two 18-year-olds are facing charges following a crash that killed a construction worker on Friday near St. Louis.
Updated: Apr. 8, 2024 at 11:23 AM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter and Amanda Alvarado
You can easily make a solar projector at home to look at the solar eclipse.
Updated: Mar. 15, 2024 at 2:23 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
The National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that five tornadoes touched down in the St. Louis area during strong storms Thursday.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2024 at 9:51 AM CST
|By Rheanna Wachter
An Anheuser-Busch fan favorite will be back at this year’s Super Bowl!
Updated: Dec. 14, 2023 at 1:58 PM CST
|By Rheanna Wachter and Dorothy Sedovic
Raja is currently part of a three-generation family of Asian elephants at the zoo.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2023 at 6:03 AM CST
|By Rheanna Wachter
The St. Louis Zoo has announced that Raja, the male Asian elephant at the zoo, will be moving away from St. Louis.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2023 at 3:38 PM CST
|By Rheanna Wachter and Jordan Gartner
Authorities in Missouri say a man is facing several charges after he attacked two Panda Express employees.
Updated: Oct. 16, 2023 at 12:59 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter, Danica Sauter and Gray News staff
Janae Edmondson was a special guest at her former high school's game, where she walked in front of the stands of cheering fans.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2023 at 10:21 AM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
Guns N’ Roses has canceled their St. Louis concert.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2023 at 9:12 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter and Jordan Gartner
Authorities in Missouri say a group of teen boys has died after crashing a car into a vacant home.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2023 at 6:18 AM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
A 2-year-old girl was found safe after being the subject of an Amber Alert Thursday, but the two suspects that abducted her are still at large.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2023 at 11:20 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter and Gray News staff
An Amber Alert has been canceled for a 2-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted during a home invasion in Missouri.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2023 at 6:10 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
Health officials urge awareness as a case of internationally-imported measles has been confirmed in the St. Louis area.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2023 at 4:15 PM CDT
|By Rheanna Wachter
Missouri Attorney General Bailey filed additional charges against the man accused of shooting two Hermann officers in March, resulting in one officer’s death.


































