The decision to put Russell on paid administrative leave comes as an external investigation is launched into the actions of ...

One week since a deadly EF-3 tornado struck St. Louis, killing five and injuring dozens, city officials have pointed to ...

Asking one person to be a specialist in all of emergency management is a monumental task and does not set us up for success,” ...

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

Mayor Cara Spencer said there is an ongoing investigation into the communication "breakdown" between Sarah Russell and the ...

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

ST. LOUIS, MO. Today, Mayor Cara Spencer is moving to place CEMA Commissioner Sarah Russell on paid administrative leave ...

We have systemic failure across so many systems here,” Spencer said. “We have a robust team that is unified in fixing this.” ...

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

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley flew into St. Louis on Monday and headed to the 4200 block of Kossuth Avenue, an especially hard-hit ...

St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer has placed Sarah Russell, the Commissioner of the City Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), on leave following a failure of the city’s tornado ...