ST. LOUIS, MO. Today, Mayor Cara Spencer is moving to place CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell on paid administrative leave pending a full external investigation

St. Louis County library social workers can help find emergency housing and shelter, food assistance, help with applications and mental health resources. You can also call 211, United Way's health and human services support line, for help with finding shelter, food or other resources.

The EF3 tornado that tore through the St. Louis region last week destroyed the Scott-Lyles family's legacy home — a house that had stood for over a century. 60-year-old Rena Scott-Lyles was killed while trying to run to her basement.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his visit to the White House on Wednesday was "a great success" even though a confrontation during the meeting with President Donald Trump over allegations of genocide garnered the most attention. FEMA crews are on the ground in St. Louis to survey the damage. They're expected to be in town for days.

St. Louis mayor asks for donations, says FEMA isn't helping after tornado struck city, causing historic damage

Craig Cole was at the convenience store in his neighborhood of Fountain Park when the storm alerts went off on his phone. He ran to his royal blue Ram truck parked outside.

ST. LOUIS — What was meant to be a joyful end-of-school-year tradition turned into a harrowing encounter with a tornado for a Godfrey mother and four children visiting the Saint Louis Zoo on Friday afternoon. Ashleigh Schroeder had taken her two kids and two of their friends—ages 9 to 12—for a celebratory day at their favorite spot.

A pair of construction workers in St. Louis had no choice but to sit tight when a tornado, which killed five, passed through the region on May 20.

My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease? The wind was whipping up, but I ignored it. I was at my house in St. Louis, on the phone with the rabbi who would officiate my mother’s funeral,