St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The 19th and final meeting of the Ferguson Commission will be held tonight in north St. Louis. The Commission will discuss the next steps in the design process for an infrastructure for implementation moving forward after the Commission disbands on December 31st. The agenda for the final meeting is available online…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A woman is dead after being shot by police during a stand off in north county over the weekend. Police say the incident began after 61-year-old Sheilah Huck allegedly shot her neighbor late Saturday morning in the 6600 block of Foothills Court. That’s when Huck barricaded herself in her home.…
CHICAGO (AP) -The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce this week a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department similar to probes of police departments in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri. The decision to investigate was confirmed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the decision who wasn’t authorized to discuss the…
( KTRS ) The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has received the results of water samples collected from the sewage overflow that occurred at the Bridgeton Landfill in October. MSD reports that final test results showed that any pollutants released from the sewage spill did not pose a threat to public health. The sewage overflow…
( KTRS ) The increasing needs of a government without a budget has at least temporarily cut into Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s resolve to stand firm against spending any state money without a spending agreement. The governor compromised last week, allowing Democrats who control the House to approve spending authority for about $3 billion. Most…
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) – Democrat Chris Koster is touting experience as attorney general as he seeks to distinguish himself from four Republicans running for Missouri governor. The Missouri Farm Bureau gubernatorial forum Sunday in Osage Beach was the first time Koster spoke at a question-and-answer session alongside Republicans. Suburban St. Louis businessman John Brunner, former…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Deer hunters statewide are encouraged to allow samples to be taken for chronic wasting disease from adult deer they harvest. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources lists locations serving as CWD sampling stations on its website. The stations are taking samples from entire deer or deer heads through Jan. 17. The…
( KTRS ) A St. Louis County woman is dead after firing shots at police officers who entered her home after she shot a neighbor three times. Sergeant Brian Schellman, with the St. Louis County Police Department reports that 61 yr old Sheilah Huck had been acting irrationally outside her home Saturday before shooting a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Forward Steve Ott of the St. Louis Blues will be sidelined for three months with a hamstring injury. The forward was hurt in the first period of a loss to Toronto on Saturday. The team said on its website that Ott would undergo surgery on both hamstrings next week.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Imagine packing up the kids and heading for that dream vacation to a Disney theme park … in St. Louis. It almost happened, and one of the few remnants of the Disney park that might have been goes on the auction block next week — 13 pages of 1963 blueprints spelling…