Michael Dennis Postal, 75, of St. Louis died July 27, 2025, at Manor Grove in St. Louis. Mr. Postal was proud to have spent 43 years working a…
Anita “Jackie” Lupo, 90, of St. Louis died March 30, 2025, at her home. Mrs. Lupo worked in logistics for Union Pacific. Born June 21, 1934, s…
Thousands of people lined railroad tracks all through Jefferson County to get a view of Big Boy No. 4014, which made a half-hour stop at the C…
Benigno "Benny" Gonzalez, 72, of De Soto died April 4, 2024, in Crystal City. Mr. Gonzalez worked as a welder and carman for Union Pacific unt…
Amtrak has given the green light for a new passenger rail stop to be built in De Soto. It will be part of the company’s Texas Eagle line.
A local woman who was driving near the Festus site where a train derailed the day before, drove past two “Road Closed” signs and dropped into …
The Union Pacific railroad car shops in De Soto, one of the oldest and largest employers in Jefferson County, informed its hundreds of employe…
A call about a fire on Dec. 17 at the Union Pacific De Soto Railroad Car Shop drew responses from numerous firefighting agencies, but it turne…
As of Monday (June 24), a body discovered four days earlier in the Mississippi River at Herculaneum had not been identified, said Dallas Thomp…
A 51-year-old House Spring man, who claims he was running out of gas during the Jan. 11 snowstorm, was arrested after he allegedly attempted t…