By SUDHIN THANAWALA and BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The winds eased, some of the smoke began to clear and the forecast Monday offered a tantalizing chance of rain to thousands of firefighters trying to corral the wildfires that have laid waste to the nation’s most celebrated wine-making region. The progress was…
St. Louis, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â A DeSmet Jesuit High School assistant football coach is one of St. Louis’ latest murder victims. Police say 27-year-old Jaz Granderson was found shot in the 5100 block of Minnesota Avenue in south St. Louis around 1 a.m. He died of his injuries after being taken to an area hospital. There’s no…
By JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A military prosecutor says he has made no agreement to limit punishment for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in return for the soldier’s guilty pleas to charges that he endangered comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009. After Bergdahl entered guilty pleas to desertion and…
O’Fallon, MO (KTRS)  Five students and two adults are recovering after a school bus accident in O’Fallon. Authorities say a car and a school bus with the Fort Zumwalt School District collided with each other at the intersection of Highway K and Waterford around 9 a.m. Monday. The injuries were said to be minor. The cause…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House Ethics Committee is reviewing a complaint against a lawmaker who called for the vandal of a Confederate monument to be hanged. It will hold a hearing Monday at the Capitol on the complaint against Republican Rep. Warren Love. Love expressed hope in a Facebook post that whoever…
Caruthersville, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â The manhunt continues for two inmates who escaped from a jail in southeast Missouri. Authorities say William Carter and Joseph Latamondeer crawled through an air duct to make their escape from the Caruthersville Jail Sunday morning. Carter was behind bars on a charge of 1st degree murder. He’s accused of killing two people…
St. Louis, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â It was a violent weekend in the city of St. Louis with more than a dozen people shot. Two of those shootings resulted in fatalities. Police say a woman in her early thirties was shot in the chest Sunday night in the 2500 block of North Grand. She was taken to an…