A 36-year-old man who was convicted in a 2023 drive-by shooting has been sentenced to three life terms. Arthur Richardson, 36 ...

St. Louis County Police are investigating the latest hit-and-run involving a fatality.

In 2022 and 2023, St. Louis homicide detectives solved substantially more cases. Homicides went down, and the department solved 56 percent of the murders committed those years, their highest rate ...

In March 2018, a heartbroken mother named Donnita Stunson mailed a letter to the mayor of St. Louis asking for help. “I was born and raised in the city of St. Louis,” she wrote. “I was once proud of ...

From 2014 through 2020, St. Louis had the highest homicide rate in the country among cities with 250,000 people or more. St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports spent nearly two and a half years ...

I n February 2021, St. Louis Public Radio and APM Reports began an investigation — later joined by The Marshall Project — into the struggles of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to solve ...

St. Louis just recorded its third straight year with a decline in total homicides. While the homicide rate cannot be accurately calculated until census numbers are finalized, a preliminary police ...

ST. LOUIS — When the sun rose on Wednesday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of the year, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reported 106 homicides in 2023. There were 136 at the same time last ...

St. Louis' highest homicide clearance rate on record was about 103%, recorded in 1988 — meaning more cases were solved than murders committed. The highest rate in the past 20 years was in 2003, ...

Two influential business groups on Friday called on St. Louis' elected leaders to set homicide reduction targets as part of development of a regional ... it had the 18th-highest total crime rate.

According to some measures, when it comes to murder rate by per capita homicides, St. Louis is not only number one in the US, but 13th in the world—with the top 12 all located in Mexico ...

Had just a handful of those justifiable homicides been classified as murders, St. Louis might have set its all-time murder record in 2020 and had its second highest annual total in 27 years in ...