Endangered Person Advisory Issued For Child Believed To Have Been Kidnapped By His Mother
Lewis County, MO Â (KTRS) Â An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing rural Missouri boy. Authorities say four-year-old Jhul Min is believed to be with his mother, Janelle Min, who does not have custody of the boy. Janelle Min took him from her parent’s home in Ewing, Missouri near Hannibal Monday afternoon, according…
Latest: Appeals seek to halt execution of Missouri man
( KTRS ) Missouri is set to execute a man convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer during a robbery in Columbia in 1994. Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die today and would be the seventh person put to death in Missouri this year. Johnson had part of a benign brain…
Ex-Speaker Hastert’s portrait removed from House hallway
WASHINGTON (AP) – A portrait of former Speaker Dennis Hastert has been removed from a hallway outside the House chamber. Just last week, the Illinois Republican pleaded guilty to breaking banking laws in a hush money scheme. The portrait has hung for years in the Speaker’s Lobby, a plush area just outside the chamber where…
Weather radar picks up flurry of fireworks after Royals win
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City erupted in a half-hour flurry of fireworks Monday night after the Royals won the World Series, and the National Weather Service has radar images to prove it. Meteorologist Jared Leighton says the NWS radar in Pleasant Hill, about 45 minutes southeast of Kansas City, shows the most intense…
Ferguson protestor pleads guilty to QuikTrip arson, burglary
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – One of the more visible protesters during last year’s unrest in Ferguson has pleaded guilty to starting a fire at a QuikTrip in Berkeley in December. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1Ho1S9e ) 19-year-old Joshua Williams of north St. Louis County pleaded guilty to arson, burglary and stealing Monday in St.…
Prosecutors drop charges related to 2013 shooting death
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a St. Louis 18-year-old who was to go on trial this week for the 2013 shooting death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Tyrell Davidson was released from jail after prosecutors chose not to pursue his case. The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office isn’t publicly…
Police say double shooting is a murder-suicide.
( KTRS ) St. Louis police now say that a double shooting on the city’s north side was a murder-suicide. The shooting happened Sunday night. Police say 24-year-old Chimera Mayo was found dead inside her home. She had been shot in the head. Police say a 24-year-old man shot Mayo before turning the gun on…