(KTRS) St. Louis Police detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a robbery suspect. The robbery occurred on Sunday February 16 at approximately 10:40 pm at the Square One Brewery at 1727 Park. The suspect is described as a black male, late 20’s to mid 30’s 5’8″-6″0″ 250 lbs with a dark complexion…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) The search is on for a new St. Louis County police chief. On Wednesday night, the St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners hosted the first of a series of public meetings to gather feedback on the selection of the next police chief. Over a hundred residents, along with local…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ryan Newman has been released from a Florida hospital two days after a frightening crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. He had been hospitalized since Monday night. Roush Fenway Racing says the 42-year-old driver was fully alert and walking around the hospital in the hours before he left.…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief says hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey’s border “under horrendous conditions.” Mark Lowcock said freezing temperatures, rain and snow are killing babies and young children every day. He told the U.N. Security Council on…
CHICAGO (AP) — When Patti Blagojevich made repeated public pleas for her husband’s release from federal prison, there was no mistaking her intended audience: President Donald Trump. For nearly two years, the wife of disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich made Trump’s own travails the centerpiece of the strategy to free her husband. She talked…
(KTRS) The suspect in the Sunday shooting of an off duty Calverton Park police officer at a Walmart in Ferguson has been charged today by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. 20-year old Fhontez Mitchell of the 1-thousand block of Forestwood Drive in Ferguson is charged with one count of first degree robbery, one…
Three relatives of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth in the bathtub of her suburban St. Louis home are facing criminal charges. An adult female and adult male are charged with child endangerment. And a 17-year-old male is charged with incest as well as statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12.…
The man suspected of shooting an off-duty police officer at a Walmart store in Ferguson is now in custody. St. Louis County police spokesman Benjamin Granda on Tuesday confirmed the arrest. The suspect had been the subject of a manhunt since the shooting Sunday night. The officer works for the police department in Calverton Park,…
A Missouri man convicted of killing an 81-year-old mobile home park manager nearly three decades ago now faces execution in May. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a May 20 execution date for Walter Barton. His case has been tied up in court for years due to mistrials, appeals and two overturned convictions. Gladys…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will provide health care for inmates at two prisons in a test which the school hopes can expand. Dean and provost Jerry Kruse said Monday the $5 million pilot project with the Illinois Department of Corrections is in keeping with the school’s mission of universally…