SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s database of banned character combinations on license plates has grown over the past 40 years to include more than 7,000 arrangements of letters and numbers deemed too offensive. State legislators first got involved with personalized license plates in 1977 and the rules for obscene plates have remained the same since…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in Ferguson are investigating a shooting that killed one person and critically injured another. Ferguson officers who responded to a report of several masked suspects “lurking” about 10 p.m. Friday found two semi-conscious victims of gunshot wounds. One of those victims died a short time later at a hospital. Authorities…
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Manhattan couple apparently distraught over their finances jumped from the man’s ninth-floor Madison Avenue office window and died. Fifty-three-year-old chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia Colant, 50, were found Friday morning. Police say they each had suicide notes that referenced financial problems. Chief of detectives Robert Boyce…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after the body of a man was found in north St. Louis. Police say the discovery was made Saturday morning along the 5000 block of Wells Avenue. The victim suffered a gunshot wound according to investigators. The victim’s name has not yet been released.