Too busy last week to stay up to date on all the news happening in and around St. Charles County? Not to worry. Patch has your back.

In case you missed them, here were some of the top headlines from Maryland Heights Patch over the last few days:

• Authorities say an 18-year-old woman was raped in Maryland Heights while walking home from a friend’s house near the intersection of Bennington Road and Fee Fee Road.
• Robin Robinson was waiting for his girlfriend at a Bridgeton motel room when he punched the woman in the face several times, pulled the room phone off the wall and broke both of the woman's cell phones, police said.
• Peter Emerson, of Maryland Heights, enlisted in the Missouri Army National Guard at 30 years of age and fulfilled a dream he had since being a young boy.
• The Parkway School district has a new tool in its toolbelt in efforts to improve school bus safety.
• Rodney Tate was convicted in 2006 of a million-dollar mortgage fruad scheme, but his supervision was revoked as he was sentenced on a new drug charge filed earlier this year to a total of 34 months imprisonment.
• It's nearly flu season. So we wrote up a quick list on where to find flu shots near Maryland Heights.
• Nearly 50 Pattonville High School students were inducted into the National Honor Society.
• Kirkwood spoiled Parkway North's Homecoming football game weekend in dominating fashion.
• Closing Briar Crest Elementary would save the Pattonville School District $700,000 per year.
• We asked Patch readers how domestic abuse should be reported?
• 13 minors were caught with alcohol at the Jason Aldean concert.