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An elderly woman is dead following a house fire, a fire captain was also injured at that scene. Later, the resident of a south city apartment was taken to the hospital with severe injuries in a separate blaze.

Three fires in less than 24 hours is unusual in St. Peters -- but quick thinking and preparedness kept them from being worse.

ST. LOUIS (AP/KMOX) - Authorities say two children were killed and a man was critically hurt in a fire in their St. Louis home and Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson says there were no working smoke detectors in the home.

WILDWOOD, Mo. (AP/KMOX) - Authorities say a woman who had filed for divorce was found dead in the parking lot outside her suburban St. Louis apartment shortly before her husband's body was found after a fire at their former home. The police say the deaths of Bobette Everhart-Boal and Michael Boal...

Surveillance footage led Chesterfield Police to look for a man they think is responsible for both a fire at Target and a nearly $50,000 jewelry theft at Macy's.

MOSCOW MILLS, MO (KMOX) -A seven-year-old boy was killed, four other children were injured in an early morning fire in a Moscow Mills mobile home. Lincoln County Fire Protection District Assistant Chief Robert Shramek tells KMOX when firefighters got to the 100 block of Blue Bunting Circle at about...

There's a $6,000 reward to catch the culprit.

ST. LOUIS (KMOX/AP) — The Sunday fire at the Clinton-Peabody housing complex has now claimed the lives of all three children who were left alone in the home. Police say 5-year-old Dream Coleman died Tuesday morning, after 4-year-old Heaven Coleman died Monday and 6-month-old Damarion Eiland died...

EUREKA, Ill. (AP) — A 9-year-old child accused of causing a mobile home fire that killed three children and two adults in central Illinois has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. The juvenile also was charged with two counts of arson and one count of aggravated arson, the (Peoria...

Two large piles of shredded metal caught fire Sunday afternoon, it's still unclear how.