A look at how each senator voted on the Manchin-Toomey amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases.

Senate rejects bipartisan plan expanding background checks, major blow to gun control effort.

A letter addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., tested positive for ricin poison on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said.

First @ 4 was on the road Friday afternoon and was live from an international event that puts St. Louis in the world spotlight this weekend.

The Clinton Global Initiative University is being held this weekend at Washington University.

A gay rights organization in mid-Missouri held its annual equality day at the state capitol Wednesday.

The Missouri senator joins President Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to publicly state support for marriage equality.

St. Louisans joined thousands of federal employees to protest the federal government's forced budget cuts Wednesday.

St. Louis Head Start leaders are fighting back after calls to defund the early child hood program get louder. Bloggers, some politicians, and both right and left wing groups have labeled the program a multi-billion dollar failure.

There's been so much frustration leading up to this sequestration with all the mudslinging and politicking, but nothing getting done.