PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union plans to appeal a recent federal court ruling that citizens can sometimes be stopped from recording police officers on duty. Philly.com says the appeal concerns a ruling issued Friday in Philadelphia by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Kearney. Kearney ruled that citizens don’t have an unfettered right…
Hillsboro, MO  (KTRS) – A Jefferson County man is accused of repeatedly stabbing a man who got in front of him at a convenience store’s soda fountain machine. Thirty-two-year-old Bennie Hornbeck of Hillsboro  has been charged with felony first-degree assault. Investigators say Hornbeck was at a convenience store near De Soto on Tuesday when he became…
St. Louis County, MO Â (KTRS) Â Heroin related deaths are increasing at an alarming rate in St. Louis County. That’s according to a report released by the St. Louis County Department of Health, which detailed drug-poisoning deaths in St. Louis County from 2010 through 2014. In 2012, there were 78 heroin deaths in the county. That…
NEW YORK (AP) – A debate has arisen among many Asian-Americans over the case of Peter Liang, a New York City police officer convicted of recklessly firing a shot that killed an innocent black man. An estimated 10,000 mostly Chinese-American demonstrators rallied in New York last weekend in support of the Chinese-American officer. Many said…
NEW YORK (AP) – The NHL has suspended St. Louis Blues forward Ryan Reaves for three games without pay for a blindside hit into the boards that injured San Jose defenseman Matt Tennyson. The punishment announced by the NHL’s department of player safety on Wednesday will cost Reaves more than $18,000 in salary. The hit…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Fantasy sports sites are in favor of an Illinois House plan to regulate contested online sports betting. Boston-based DraftKings and New York-based FanDuel are expected to announce their support of a proposal sponsored by Democratic Rep. Mike Zalewski at the Capitol on Thursday. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan issued an opinion…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A Collinsville City Council member is resisting calls from colleagues to step down over her personal use of a municipal credit card while working as the southwestern Illinois city’s clerk. The Belleville News-Democrat (bit.ly/1Ld9Id1 ) reports that two council members called for Cheryl Brombolich to resign her elected position Monday night.…
( KTRS ) Authorities are looking for a victims vehicle in hopes of finding his killer. Schron Jackson, with the St. Louis police department, reports that police responded to the 4000 block of Bowen, around 3pm Monday afternoon, to a call for an unconscious male. Upon arrival, officers found 51 yr old Ricardo Comparini unconscious…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis police sergeant who won a racial discrimination case over a police academy promotion will be paid the $620,000 he won in a federal lawsuit, plus $172,000 in attorney’s fees. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a federal appeals court has declined to reconsider the case, leaving the city…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court is considering a claim that state senators violated the Sunshine Law by barring some people from taking videos at committee meetings. The court heard arguments Wednesday in a case brought by Progress Missouri. The liberal group was denied permission to record videos in four Senate committee…