BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing the owner of an East St. Louis beauty supply store two years ago during an attempted robbery. John Paraham of East St. Louis pleaded guilty Friday in St. Clair County Court to first-degree murder in the death of…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating after a body was found among the wreckage of a house fire in Collinsville, IL. Around 2 am Sunday morning the Collinsville 911 center received a call for a house fire. Police arrived on the scene and say the two story home already had flames shooting out from the…
( KTRS ) Nearly a pound of heroin headed from Chicago to St. Louis was intercepted by authorities, when the man transporting it was stopped for speeding in Montgomery County. Authorities allege that the motorist, who resides in the Chicagoland area, was in possession of 439 grams of heroin and 42 grams of cannabis, when…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A new St. Louis police officer has been injured during a struggle with an armed man. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1N3hEIi ) that the 24-year-old probationary officer was patrolling with a sergeant in a marked car around 9:45 p.m. Sunday when they saw a man acting suspiciously in the Fairground…
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in Liberia, a health official said Friday, more than two months after the West African nation was declared Ebola-free for a second time. It is a setback for Liberia, one of the three countries hit hardest by the worst Ebola outbreak in history. The…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Food Bank will be able to feed more needy families thanks to an annual Boy Scouts fundraiser. Boy scouts collected over 1.9 million food items through the Scouting For Food Campaign this weekend. Scouts went door to door Saturday throughout the St. Louis area picking up bags of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The cause of a fire that claimed the lives of three children in north St. Louis is being investigated. Firefighters were called to a burning home in the 4900 block of Plover at around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. Two adults and eight children were inside of the burning two-story structure when firefighters…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) Patrols will be stepped up on Missouri roadways over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Troopers with the Missouri Highway Patrol will be on the look out for impaired drivers, speeding motorists, and seat belt violations. Officals say this is being done in an effort to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. Last year…
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The heavily armed Islamic extremists who shot up a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, killing 19 people, timed their assault for the moment when guards would be the most lax, allowing them to easily blast their way past a five-man security team before turning their weapons on terrified guests, a security…
Warrensburg, MO (KTRS) A possible hate crime is being investigated at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. University officials say the incident happened in a bathroom of the Martin Building on Thursday night, where “hate speech” was written on a mirror and a trash inside of a waste can was set on fire. Officials…