"Typically you don't see funding go up until you've had an incident and a big incident and a life-costing incident," Russell said in a May 6 budget meeting.

St. Louis probes death threats against CEMA chief after tornado siren failure; Mayor places the chief on paid leave.

Image via Shutterstock A Missouri emergency management chief in St. Louis is in hot water. They've been placed on leave for ...

One week since a deadly EF-3 tornado struck St. Louis, killing five and injuring dozens, city officials have pointed to failures in the emergency siren system and human error in warning residents ...

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer placed CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell on leave after a failure to activate tornado warnings, ...

The commissioner of the St. Louis City Emergency Management Agency, Sarah Russell, has been placed on paid administrative leave after failing to sound the warning siren during the tornadoes last ...

Sarah Russell, the Emergency Management Commissioner in St. Louis, has been placed on paid administrative leave after a ...

David Krell was in his home in London, Kentucky on Friday when the twister ripped apart the town as a storm system that left a trail of destruction across multiple states and killed almost two dozen ...

Following a deadly tornado in St. Louis that claimed five lives, Mayor Cara Spencer has placed emergency management chief ...

Why multidisciplinary artist Malene Barnett​ curated "Crafted Kinship," an art book exploring the creative practices of over ...

The directive to activate the sirens was ambiguous, which cannot happen when a tornado is sweeping through our City and St. Louisans’ safety depends on being alerted ...