St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) It’s been more than a year since the death of Michael Brown and the final resting place of the Black Lives Matter movement icon still doesn’t have a headstone. Instead, the grave at St. Peter’s Cemetery is marked only by the letters “MB” spray-painted in orange on a concrete footing…
CHICAGO (AP) – A white Chicago police officer charged with murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting a black Chicago teenager 16 times returns to court to learn whether he’ll be offered bond. A Monday hearing for Officer Jason Van Dyke comes after days of protests in Chicago over the killing of…
( KTRS ) Authorities in southwestern Illinois are investigating the cause of a fire that left two people dead. Police in Highland say two 911 calls alerted fire officials and police to smoke coming from a house around 8 a.m. Sunday. Authorities say the house was fully engulfed in flames when police, paramedics and firefighters…
CINCINNATI (AP) – Andy Dalton threw three touchdown passes – two of them to A.J. Green – and the Cincinnati Bengals ended their brief skid with a 31-7 victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. After dropping a pair of prime-time games, the Bengals (9-2) were back in sync against a team that struggles…
( KTRS ) Gov. Bruce Rauner has repeatedly pledged to save taxpayers money by eliminating some of Illinois’ nearly 7,000 units of government. A task force the Republican governor named to put that idea in motion, is preparing its final recommendations.Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti, the commission’s chairwoman, says its suggestions could make government more efficient…
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AP) – A newspaper report says proposed plans to move a federal spy agency’s regional headquarters from St. Louis to Illinois’ Scott Air Force Base have been around for over a decade. Southwestern Illinois and Missouri are competing to house the project. The Belleville News Democrat reports 2005 minutes from…
( KTRS ) Missouri lawmakers are set to question officials in Governor Jay Nixon’s administration on how the state spends money to help refugees. The Legislature set the hearing for today, in response to deadly attacks in Paris and criticism of Nixon’s decision not to join other governors who are trying to block resettlement of…
NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) – It’s been more than 15 months since Michael Brown became a household name after a white police officer shot and killed the black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. But Brown’s fame stands in stark contrast to the relative obscurity of his gravesite. The final resting place of the…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The mayor of Colorado Springs says authorities aren’t ready to discuss a possible motive of the gunman who attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic there but says people can make “inferences from where it took place.” John Suthers says investigators have interviewed 57-year-old Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina but says…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis has officially canceled its contract for major music festivals that never got off the ground. Aldermen last year agreed to a 10-year contract with Los Angeles-based ICM Partners, giving the company exclusive access to the Gateway Mall over the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. ICM had planned “Summer…