NewsChannel 5 Investigations hold the powerful accountable, expose fraud and government wrong-doing, and advocate for good throughout the St. Louis region. If you have a story that needs to be investigated, Leisa Zigman and Farrah Fazal want to hear from you.
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I-Team Stories
7:39 PM, Jun 18, 2013
The owners of the Crestwood Mall are shutting it down and putting up barricades to all the entrances.
4:35 AM, Jun 14, 2013
For more than 30 years, a former Westlake landfill worker has kept a secret.
5:57 PM, Jun 11, 2013
If you're eating or drinking right now, especially a juice box, you might want to set it down for a moment.
1:28 PM, Jun 6, 2013
The wrong kind of hotel guests are checking into luxury hotels across St. Louis. They are sex traffickers - selling girls, women and boys in one to five star hotels.
10:51 PM, May 30, 2013
The St. Clair County Circuit judge at the center of a drug scandal and charged with heroin possession, handled 90 percent of the circuit's drug court cases.
10:37 PM, May 29, 2013
The St. Charles County prosecutor is about to take his very first sex trafficking case to court.
11:09 PM, May 22, 2013
The non-descript hotel room is full of men and a few women. One of them is young and blonde.
11:14 PM, May 20, 2013
It is high school graduation season. Many of the new grads are among the 1 million people who will walk into a so-called "for-profit school" like Sanford Brown.
6:12 PM, May 20, 2013
A long time feud between two neighbors has the I-Team digging for answers and trying to make peace.
5:55 PM, May 15, 2013
A tip that came into our newsroom led to a story about a 4-year-old boy who was attacked by a dog at the Missouri Veteran's Home in north St. Louis County.
11:17 PM, May 8, 2013
What if you called 911 and there were no ambulances available?
10:49 PM, May 2, 2013
Genetic tests can do anything from determining paternity to proving someone's guilt or innocence. But can your genes tell you if you or your kids could be among the top athletes?
12:06 AM, May 2, 2013
Would you ever hire a contractor who couldn't read a tape measure or stay within your size limits? You already have, and it has cost you millions of dollars.
10:33 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Could Todd Akin be the new comeback kid?
10:49 PM, Apr 23, 2013
St. Louis County Board of Equalization has ruled in favor of Kirkwood Schools in a battle that seems to pit the interest of children and their education against the interest of seniors and their retirement community.
6:29 PM, Apr 18, 2013
In an email sent exclusively to NewsChannel 5's Leisa Zigman, Adolphus Busch IV, heir to the Busch family throne, asked the gun rights group to "immediately" remove his name from their membership roles.
12:33 PM, Apr 17, 2013
In response to an I-Team report Tuesday, MorphoTrust USA sent a copy of a letter it sent to Missouri's Department of Revenue in March. The letter outlines its National Security Agreement with the United States Government and details how it protects personal records.
3:49 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Seven members of 18-year-old Matthew Pellegrini's family spoke through tears at a sentencing hearing in St. Louis Circuit Court Thursday. Each family member asked the judge to reject a plea agreement made without their consent.
12:26 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Was it murder or an accident? A St. Louis crime is making international headlines because it is so shocking and bizarre.
7:04 PM, Apr 9, 2013
A sign that recently went up in Faust Park in Chesterfield had professional photographers so upset they voiced outrage on KSDK's facebook page and asked the I-Team's Leisa Zigman to investigate new fees that seemed to have been enacted over night.
11:01 PM, Apr 2, 2013
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.
6:00 PM, Apr 2, 2013
As Ellisville Mayor Adam Paul fights for his political life, NewsChannel 5's I-Team spent the day looking at how much the impeachment process is costing Ellisville taxpayers.
6:40 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Sources tell NewsChannel 5's I-Team that Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster will file suit against Republic Services, the owner of the Bridgeton landfill, Wednesday morning.
6:48 PM, Mar 26, 2013
NewsChannel 5's I-Team has uncovered serious flaws with Missouri's sex offender registry.
7:36 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Last month, the I-Team reported extensively about unusual cancers and birth defects in Florissant, Hazelwood, Spanish Lake and other communities where Coldwater Creek flows.
7:03 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Law enforcement in St. Louis says 25-year-old Samwell Fowler figured out a way to break his parole and avoid signing Missouri's sex offender registry for the past five years.
11:51 PM, Mar 7, 2013
On the heels of an I-Team investigation into whether a luxury retirement complex in Kirkwood should qualify for tax exempt status, the county assessor is weighing in.
8:06 PM, Mar 7, 2013
Following Thursday's explosion, the I-Team reviewed OSHA records between 2008 and 2013.
12:24 AM, Feb 22, 2013
A staggering number of cancers, birth defects and illnesses first reported by the I-Team earlier this month has at least one local oncologist calling our findings, "an event."
12:33 AM, Feb 14, 2013
Bills. We all have them, even if we don't like them.