(AP) — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bells says a police officer who killed a man during a shootout on Interstate 44 last year was “fully justified” and will not face criminal charges. Twenty-three-year-old Qavon Webb died in a shootout with the Webster Groves officer whose name was not released. The officer was shot…
CHICAGO (AP) — Civil rights groups and communities of color are watching warily for any moves to expand law enforcement power as federal officials grapple with how to confront the security threat posed by domestic extremists after the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol. They say their communities have felt the brunt of security scrutiny…
The County Department of Public Health says it received 3,900 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday from a local hospital partner, allowing it to open its mass vaccination site in Ferguson at St. Louis Community College’s Florissant Valley campus, which will be open for appointments starting Wednesday.. Vaccinations will also continue at the John…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers are denying that he played a role in inciting the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol and say that the Senate impeachment trial is unconstitutional. The lawyers filed their brief Tuesday ahead of next week’s trial on accusations that he provoked the siege of the Jan. 6 siege of…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a guard at a light rail station. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday that 36-year-old Nathaniel Maurice Smith III of Berkeley also was charged with armed criminal action. James Cook was shot Sunday at MetroLink’s…
LONDON (AP) — The World War II veteran who walked into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for healthcare workers has died after testing positive for COVID-19. Capt. Tom Moore was 100. His family announced Moore’s death Tuesday in a tweet with his…
“Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer. His spokesman confirmed Diamond’s death. He was 44. Diamond, best known for playing Screech on the hit ’90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later he had cancer. “Saved by the Bell” aired from 1989…
Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a MetroLink security guard in St. Louis. Thirty-year-old James Cook, of Sullivan, was shot Sunday at the MetroLink’s Delmar Loop station. He was working for a private security firm when he was shot. He leaves behind two young daughters and his wife Kimberly. Police said…
WASHINGTON — The virus that causes COVID-19 could gain a permanent place in the population without global vaccination, warns the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci. “We’ve got to get the whole world vaccinated,” Fauci told reporters Monday during the International AIDS Society’s COVID-19 conference. “If we don’t get a global effort,…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — CrimeStoppers along with MetroLink and the City of St. Louis is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a homicide at the Delmar MetroLink station Sunday morning. St. Louis Metropolitan Police say the incident occured around 10 a.m. at the station in the 700…