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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Emergency Management Commissioner Sarah Russell was placed on paid administrative leave pending an external investigation ...

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' emergency management commissioner has been placed on administrative leave, the mayor said, after tornado sirens failed to be activated ahead of Friday's storm.

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