Wellston News

The Wellston School District is closing and its students will now join the Normandy School District.

It took just a matter of minutes for Missouri's State Board of Education to dissolve the Wellston School District in St.

A children's center planned for Wellston, Mo., will get $3 million in federal funds, under the omnibus spending bill that passed the U.S. Senate Sunday.

The Wellston school district faces a state shutdown and forced merger with an arch rival.

A planned recommendation to merge two school districts is raising concerns from students, teachers and others.

The future of the Wellston School District is in jeopardy and is at risk of closing at the end of the school year.

Some major changes could be in store as early as next week for one of the most financially and academically challenged school districts in our area.

A former Wellston police officer and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement employee on federal probation has been indicted on multiple federal charges in U.S. District Court in East St.

The Missouri Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places during its quarterly meeting Nov.

The man killed in a car crash after shots were exchanged along Lucas & Hunt Road about 11 p.m. Tuesday has been identified as William Chatman, of Wellston, recently released from prison after a 2001 violence spree.

The FOX Files has obtained some disturbing video of a murder on tape. A man pulled out two handguns and began shooting right in front of a surveillance camera in St.

Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Wellston, Mo., last week. You know the caricature that's emerged of Vice President Joe Biden -- the bumbling chatterbox who is a source of frustration within President Obama's administration, due mainly to his tendency to go off-script in bewildering ways.

Wellston citizens and leaders hosted a town hall meeting Thursday night to put an end to a recent rash of deadly shootings.

Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the nation's economic recovery plan is succeeding, but more work needs to be done to create jobs and improve families' financial security.

Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to be in St. Louis on Thursday to talk about how federal stimulus money is helping to create jobs and help law enforcement.

An accident involving a church van and two other cars has left two people dead and 11 more injured.

The last of four defendants in the 2007 beating death of a southwestern Illinois man has cut a plea deal that's landed him an 18-year prison sentence.

On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office issued warrants on Kent Taylor, 43 years of age, of the 2100 block of Rosebud Avenue, St.

David L. Dausman, 35, a fired Wellston police officer facing drug and counterfeiting charges, is now accused of impersonating an officer and being a felon in possession of a gun.

Prosecutors charged a 20-year-old who is accused of hitting a police officer with a car, which police said prompted the officer to shoot the suspect.