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Police release video of carjacking suspects
(KTRS) – Police are hoping that someone will recognize suspects in a fatal carjacking in newly-released surveillance video footage. Around 10:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue near 11th Street two suspects walked up to Brandi Hill’s car, shot her, and dumped her body in street before driving off in her car. Hill’s nine-month-old daughter was…
Illinois lawmakers advance plan for automatic voter registration
CHICAGO (AP) – A plan allowing automatic voter registration in Illinois is advancing through the Legislature despite concerns from the leading state election authority that would have to implement it. Backers want Illinois to join Oregon, California and West Virginia in modernizing voter registration. They say it cleans up voter rolls and boosts civic participation.…
After house fire, parents found with gunshots, toddler dead
(KTRS) – Two adults and their six-month-old daughter were found dead after a house fire in north St. Louis this weekend. Investigators now believe that the parents, Melvin Thomas and Maruita Jones, were shot. Fire officials say the home had working smoke detectors on the second floor of the home. Homicide detectives are involved in…
Clay Waller named in federal indictment
Waller could face up to life in prison if convicted
Supreme Court throws out death sentence from all-white jury
The outcome probably will enable Foster to win a new trial, 29 years after he was sentenced to death
Clinton email probe winding down as GOP tries to up pressure
WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI agents probing whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server imperiled government secrets appear close to completing their work, a process experts say will likely culminate in a sit-down with the former secretary of state. The FBI has already spoken with Huma Abedin, a Clinton confidant who was among the…
Mayor: Baltimore ready in case of ‘disturbance’
BALTIMORE (AP) – Baltimore’s mayor says the city is prepared to respond to any disturbance after the acquittal of an officer in the death of the young black man Freddie Gray. In her statement Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says the city will protect neighborhoods, businesses and residents. Gray’s death April 19, 2015, set off more…