EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – The Martin Luther King Bridge connecting East St. Louis to St. Louis is set to reopen after being closed for construction. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the bridge crossing the Mississippi River is scheduled to reopen to traffic the week of Dec. 21. The bridge has been closed since…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Officials in a southwest Illinois community have decided to allow up to 75 residents to keep chickens within city limits. The Collinsville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve an ordinance allowing chickens in residential districts. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that the Collinsville Planning Commission and Mayor John Miller initially…
( KTRS ) A small crowd of protesters is snaking through streets near Chicago’s downtown early Wednesday. The demonstrations started hours earlier after police released a dash-cam video showing the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer. The officer was charged with murder Tuesday. The protesters tried to block traffic on…
( KTRS ) Fifty years after a gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth and months after the woman learned her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins says Melanie Gilmore seeks to invalidate her 1983 adoption and re-establish…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An audio recording has captured a heated phone call between two Republican gubernatorial candidates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1OqBaSp ) reports that former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens is heard calling St. Louis businessman John Brunner a “weasel,” “coward,” “corrupt” and a liar on the Nov. 14 recording. Brunner spends much…
( KTRS ) An NFL insider say Rams wide receiver, Stedman Bailey, has been shot while in South Florida. NFL’s Ian Rapoport has tweeted that Bailey was shot twice, and is currently in stable condition in a Miami ICU. The Rams released this statement on their website saying: “We are aware Stredman Bailey was involved in an…
(KTRS) – St. Louis County Police say that the autopsy of 18-year-old Amonderez Green shows his only wound was a self-inflicted gunshot below his chin. Police were called to a Ferguson home October 28 on reports that someone, later identified as Green, may be suicidal. When officers arrived, Green ignored their commands. He eventually pulled…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins announced the petition Tuesday in which…
(KTRS) – The Missouri Supreme Court has tossed out the 1991 double-murder convictions for Reginald Clemons. Clemons has been fighting his guilty verdict and death sentence in the rape and killing of Julie and Robin Kerry. In a 4-3 decision the Supreme Court sent the case back to the circuit court. The state now has…
