St. Louis Police

Chief John Hayden said police believed the rash of killings over the weekend to be drug related in a press conference on Monday.

St. Louis police believe rash of weekend killings was drug-related

Abigail Censky

St. Louis Police suspect four of six killings over the past weekend were drug-related, Chief John Hayden said Monday.Drugs were found at two of the crime…

St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden speaks to residents at Clinton-Peabody Public Housing Complex on Friday, Aug. 3.

Government, Politics & Issues

After drug-ring bust, Clinton-Peabody residents still want better policing, social services

Ashley Lisenby

Bobbi Len Taylor Mitchell-Bey's children were killed at the Clinton-Peabody housing complex in south St. Louis more than a year ago.On Friday, she asked…

St. Louis County officers join Clayton police in Februrary at a protest outside of Sen. Roy Blunt's office in downtown Clayton.

Government, Politics & Issues

County police officers to see 30 percent raise while city mulls funding options for its officers

Rachel Lippmann

Officers with the St. Louis County Police Department will see, on average, a 30 percent pay raise on Jan. 1, 2018, thanks to revenue from a new sales tax…

Terrell Carter is pastor of the mostly-white Webster Groves Baptist Church

Government, Politics & Issues

‘Walking the Blue Line’- addressing the racial divide with a former police officer

Since the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the subsequent community unrest, dialogue about racial division in the St. Louis area became a…

Police are facing increasingly hostile, anti-law enforcement crowds as protests continue in the St. Louis area.

Government, Politics & Issues

Officer: Facing Threats And Shots Makes Protest Duty Emotional For Police

Since Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown in August, police have been facing hostile protests with often a strong anti-law…

St. Louis Police Officer Facing Domestic Assault Charges

Rachel Lippmann

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has suspended an officer who is accused of assaulting his live-in boyfriend.Matthew Schanz, 26, faces two…

Two St. Louis Police Officers Shot In North City

Rachel Lippmann

Updated at 1 p.m.St. Louis prosecutors have filed several felony charges against a 44-year-old man accused of shooting the two officers.Rico A. Martin…