ST. LOUIS – In the summer of 2017, 5 On Your Side aired video of inmates waving through a window and yelling for help at the Medium Security Institution also known as the “Workhouse." Since then, ...

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The shadow of Birkenhead Workhouse would once have loomed menacingly over the lives of Merseyside's poor and infirm. As work ...

Along the River Avon in southwest England, the city of Bristol has centuries of history. The harbor town was first incorporated in 1155, and soon became a major port through the export of wool from ...

ST. LOUIS — Three trespassers had to be rescued by police Thursday night after accidentally locking themselves in a jail cell inside a shuttered city jail. St. Louis police spokesperson Sgt. Charles ...