Local News - FOX 2 News St. Louis

Stella Mangogna, 61, died after fire swept through her Riverview home Wednesday. Neighbors and police were unable to free her from her home on Lilac. One officer was overcome by the heavy smoke and had to be taken to the hospital. The fire is not considered suspicious.

There is a frightening situation as a number of students at Normandy High School may have been exposed to HIV. Doctors from the County Health Department will meet with parents to discuss the potential crisis. Many students and parents are extremely concerned.

A Park Hills, Missouri, woman is angry after thieves stole seven of her campaign yard signs outside her home. Armed with lots of red duct tape, Lu Ann Patterson climbed up on her roof to make huge homemade political signs. They are out of reach of criminals.

Students at Normandy High School were sent home with letters to notify their parents of a possible HIV outbreak at the high school. The letters were sent home on Monday with students. District officials have scheduled a meeting for 6 p.m. Wednesday at Normandy High School with the St. Louis County Health Department. Parent can come to get more information about the situation and have their ...

Utility regulators and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources are joining forces to help the state's residents lower winter heating bills. The Public Service Commission and Natural Resources Department launched a Web site that's devoted to offering tips for improving energy efficiency. The suggestions are divided between ideas that don't cost anything, tips that are cheap to implement and ...

A suburban St. Louis woman and a police officer are injured in a fire. The blaze broke out late Tuesday in the 9700 block of Lilac in Riverview in north St. Louis County. Fire Chief Joe Bommarito says Stell Mangogna, 61, was taken to an area hospital for severe burns. She later died. The police officer was treated for smoke inhalation after he ran into the house to rescue the woman before ...

A St. Charles County teenager gets a five-year suspended sentence and is placed on probation after pleading guilty in the death of his father. Casey Doss of O'Fallon is now 19, but was a high school senior when the incident happened last year. He entered the guilty plea on Wednesday. Authorities say Doss and his 58-year-old father, Larry Doss, got into an argument over the loud muffler on his ...

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain still running about even in Missouri according to the latest poll. The CNN/Time/Opinion Research poll of 763 likely Missouri voters had McCain at 49 percent and Obama at 48 percent. The poll, conducted Oct. 11-14, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The results are similar to a poll conducted by the same group two weeks ...

Nancy Reagan was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after a fall at home, her spokeswoman said Wednesday. The 87-year-old former first lady fell last week but she decided Monday to get checked out at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center because of persistent pain, Joanne Drake said. Doctors determined she had a fractured pelvis. "She's in some pain but in very good spirits," Drake said. Mrs. Reagan ...

A consultant to minority-owned businesses who was part of a 1999 protest blocking morning rush hour on Interstate 70 in St. Louis is sentenced to a year and a day in prison for filing false tax returns. The sentence for 61-year-old Eddie Hasan was handed down in federal court on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway says the false returns involved money Hasan received as a consultant to ...

The teenager who committed suicide after an Internet hoax was not the only girl exchanging messages with a fake MySpace address allegedly operated by a woman now charged in the girl's death, the woman's lawyer said. Attorney Dean Steward filed a request in federal court for the phone records of a second teenage girl identified by the initials "S.D.

An Illinois State Police sting operation whose goal was to see if stores would sell alcohol to minors has brought stunning results in a good way. Last Friday, authorities hit a total of 17 businesses in the Belleville area. Not one of them sold any alcohol to minors.

Wednesday's Financial Times is reporting that InBev postponed a $9.8 billion rights offering on Tuesday that it hoped to use to finance its $52bn takeover of Anheuser-Busch blaming "unprecedented volatility in the global capital markets".

A scam is targeting Missouri grandparents and it’s the same one that's already cost grandparents in other states thousands of dollars. FOX 2 has more on how it works and how to keep from falling prey.

The You Paid For It team questions the new head of a St. Charles County school district about a $600,000 dollar gamble with your money. Will it pay off or will the bet be a bust? The Wentzville School district still isn't sure of the fate of your land on Mexico Road. The district paid $600,000 on infrastructure improvements like sewers on the land. Trouble is a new district study on future ...

Christmas in October: your ears aren't fooling you. You will already find a St. Louis radio station playing 24 hour holiday music on the radio. Many are interested to learn that it's actually a switch to sports radio that leading to the festive music.

Huge swings for the stock market today, but it ended down slightly, losing 77 points. The trading day started with the President's announcement that $250 billion dollars of the bailout bill will be used to buy shares U.S. banks. The bailout plan gives federal taxpayers ownership of big chunks of the nation's nine biggest banks, including Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wachovia. It looks like ...

Still no answers for an Alton family six months ago their loved one vanished. Still police have no strong clues. Michael Womack was heading to a shopping center in Wood River when he disappeared. Michael Womack’s family is now offering a 10-thousand dollar reward for information in the case.

St. Louis County Police officers fight crime everyday. Now they're fighting for a raise in pay. Officers want a 6.5% increase in salary. A new resolution that includes that amount is being presented to the council Tuesday night. However, the County Executive says the money may not be available during these tough economic times.