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East St. Louis is slashing its police force by nearly a third. 19 of the East. St. Louis PD's 62 officers are being laid off. City officials said police would have to accept a furlough program to avoid layoffs but the city and police union couldn't reach a deal. 11 firefighters are also being let go as well as 7 additional city workers. |
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
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St. Louis County police have captured a man who brandished a rifle at police after responding to a call at his Wildwood home. 33-year-old James Hardy was caught without incident at Highways 100 and 109 in Wildwood around 10:20 this morning. He was a passenger in a truck when county police pulled it over at the intersection. Last night at ten, police received a call from a woman requesting police check on the well being of a male friend. She described him as being distraught. When police arrived, Hardy came out of the house with a gun. Officers fired at him, grazing him. Hardy ran from the house and that's when the all-night manhunt began. Hardy is now in police custody. Police have had previous dealings with him, and they are trying to get him help for mental-health problems.
He's charged with assault on a law enforcement officer 2nd degree, unlawful use of A weapon, and felony resisting/interfering with arrest. Hardy is currently being held on a $100,000 cash only bond.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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The boyfriend of a woman found murdered in Sunset Hills has been charged in her death. Police say 37-year-old James Harvey was charged today with second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, 49-year-old Sherry Bladdick.
Harvey is jailed on $500,000 bond. He lives in the 4200 block of Botanical Avenue and previously served time in an Illinois prison for rape. Bladdick's body was found Sunday in the yard after a party in Anton Place--an upscale subdivision in Sunset Hills. Authorities initially believed her death was alcohol-related, but later classified it as a homicide after her ex-husband expressed concern and asked for an autopsy.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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A St. Louis liquor control officer faces federal bribery charges after prosecutors accused him of taking a bribe from someone seeking a liquor license for a new bar. 41-year-old James Allen Morgan allegedly suggested the would be bar owner would be a shoe in to get a license if he hired Morgan to manage the new bar with a $60,000 salary and a $10,000 signing bonus. If convicted, he faces up to ten years in prison. |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson has moved closer to sewing up a gaping wound from his predecessor's time in the Archdiocese. IN a letter distributed through the Archdiocese website, he reveals talks have been ongoing with the board of directors of St. Stanislaus to return the historic polish church to the fold. He says he is addressing concerns from Archbishop Raymond Burke's tenure that the parish would be closed and sold with dollars shifted to other needs. The church is set to vote on Carlson's offer to bring the church back into the Archdiocese August 8th. |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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St. Louis County has been warned that the state public defender system may stop taking new criminal cases. The system says public defenders are overworked and underfunded but St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch argues the public defenders are simply trying to get more money from the Legislature, and less work. |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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A St. Peters man has been found not guilty in an abandoned suicide pact with a friend. Jacob Runge and Alex Harkins of Florissant purchased a 9 millimeter gun and went to St. Stanislaus Conservation Area in Hazelwood, planning to take their lives. Runge said after Harkins fatally shot himself in the head, he panicked and decided not to kill himself. |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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A Union teen dies after the truck she was riding in overturns. The Missouri Highway Patrol says Chelsea E. Seaton, 18, of Union, was fatally injured when the pickup she was riding in Wednesday afternoon ran off Highway CC and overturned.
Seaton was thrown from the truck about 3 p.m. Wednesday. She was taken by helicopter to St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, where she died about 4:30 p.m.The Missouri Highway Patrol said Seaton was a passenger in a 2003 Ford Ranger driven by Megan M. Deaton, 19, of Union.Police say Deaton was driving south on Highway CC when the pickup ran off the right side of the road. Deaton overcorrected, and the truck returned to the road but went off the left side of the highway, police say. She overcorrected again, and the vehicle overturned, police say.Police say Deaton had been wearing a seatbelt, but Seaton was not.
Deaton suffered moderate injuries. She was taken to St. John's Hospital in Washington, Mo., for treatment. |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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Two independent panels will investigate sterilization problems at the St. Louis VA Medical Center that put nearly 2,000 veterans at risk for HIV and hepatitis.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan said Thursday that the Government Accountability Office - the investigative arm of Congress - has agreed to include the St. Louis situation as part of a broader investigation into VA medical center problems around the country.
Meanwhile, Carnahan said the inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs will also investigate.
The VA announced in June that 1,812 veterans may face a slight risk of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C because of inadequate sterilization in the dental clinic at the St. Louis facility.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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The former superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery says he accepts "full responsibility" for the mix-up of graves at the famous military burial ground.
John Metzler ran the cemetery for 19 years before he was forced out because of the scandal. He told a Senate committee on Thursday that it pains him that his team didn't do its job. He expressed his "sincere regrets to the families."
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said at the hearing that as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington could be unmarked or mislabeled because managers didn't do their job properly.
That's much higher than the estimate last month from Army investigators, who said about 211 remains were affected.
Metzler's former deputy, Thurman Higginbotham, also appeared. Higginbotham says he plans to assert his Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions.
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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The Lincoln County sheriff's department is investigating an attempted abduction Tuesday morning of a young girl in the Ashleigh Estates subdivision east of Troy, Mo. Investigators said two preteen girls were trying to find their dog at about 10 a.m. when one of the girls was approached by a man driving a van.The man got out and reached for one of the girls. They ran away screaming, and the children's mother called police. The driver was described as white with a triangle-shaped dark goatee. The van was full-size, dark green, with tinted windows and a white stripe. Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 636-528-8546. |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
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Governor Jay Nixon is seeking federal disaster aid for 32 Missouri counties hit by flooding and severe storms in recent months. Nixon made the request this week for a major disaster declaration. Most of the 32 counties are in western and northern Missouri. The governor's office said Wednesday that Nixon has also asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to designate 55 counties as primary disaster areas. That designation allows farmers to get help from the federal agency's Farm Service Agency. |
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