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…
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…
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.…
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…
( 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…
(KTRS) – If you look at the sky tonight, there is the possibility you could see the Northern Lights. A forecast from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks says a powerful magnetic storm will greatly expand the area in which the lights can be seen. You will have to be in a dark…
Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die Tuesday for using a claw hammer to kill three Columbia convenience store workers in 1994
TROY, Mo. (AP) – An eastern Missouri man once convicted of murder in his wife’s 2011 stabbing death is getting a retrial. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Russell Faria’s bench trial began Monday in Lincoln County. St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer alone will decide the case. During opening statements. a prosecutor argued that…
(KTRS) – Activists and organizers are coming together to find ways to hold elected officials accountable for implementing suggestions from the Ferguson Commission. More than a thousand people gathered for a strategy session this weekend at Saint Louis University. The Ferguson Commission delivered a report to Governor Jay Nixon with policy recommendations on how to…
The leading edge of the river’s juvenile Asian carp population is about 66 miles closer to Lake Michigan than it was at the beginning of this year