Credit Julie Brown Patton

Todd Combs, 42, of the 7800 block of LaBelle Street in Affton, was charged Wednesday for providing alcohol to his 12-year-old stepson before the boy's drowning death in the Meramec River....

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Before he was the “missing Affton boy” capturing headlines around the world for disappearing into the Meramec River near Eureka and Pacific, Christopher “Chris” T. Marks was an outgoing, ...

Credit Lindsay Toler

Not like this. That’s what Dylan Mackey, a student at Rogers Middle School in Affton, said as he walked uphill up to the school basketball courts. It’s the end of summer, and school ...

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Affton community residents will hold a glow bracelet vigil Friday, Aug. 9, in honor of Christopher Marks, the seventh grader-to-be who was found dead in the Meramec River Tuesday, at the ...

Credit Julie Brown Patton

Fragments of information flew rapidly this week, sometimes in conflicting ways, once family members and friends of Christopher Marks' tried to think of every way possible to locate him af...