Success and helping the community. Those are among the lessons East St. Louis native Dr. David Mosley’s family taught him from an early age. 

With a continued push to a 90 percent graduation rate for all students, a new report released Monday addresses a population not often discussed – homeless students.

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“Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools” provides insight into the resources needed to help these students dealing with homelessness but also stay in school and on a track to success. 

Twitter CEO and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey fulfilled hundreds of DonorsChoose.org funding requests for Missouri schools and classrooms Thursday as part of the #BestSchoolDay “flash funding” campaign, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The campaign was initiated by Stephen Colbert in May 2015.

TROY, Missouri (KSDK) – Although many dads will expect a new tie, socks or watch for a Father's Day gift, a Troy, Missouri Army veteran has already received his gift – the hope of a longer life for his son.

Even before he was born, Kyle Morrison, 4, had to fight for his life.

CHARLESTON, Mo. — A Missouri man who didn't go to prison for more than a decade because of a clerical error can go home to his family, a judge ruled Monday.

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Cornealious "Mike" Anderson, then 23, helped rob the assistant manager of a Burger King in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Mo., in 1999. In 2000, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison, but the order to report for incarceration never came — even though he had asked his then-lawyer when it would happen.