St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Former St. Ann Police Officer Ellis Brown has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on Civil Rights charges in connection with an April 2019 traffic stop. According to the indictment announced by U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen on Thursday, Brown is accused of “willfully depriving” a victim, identified as S.K., of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police identify the victim of Wednesday’s early morning homicide in north county. According to County Police, 37-year-old Derrick Bunting was shot and killed in the parking lot of an apartment complex. It unfolded just after 6:30 in the 4600 block of Whisper Lake Drive in Black Jack. That’s where officers with…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military says the Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S. The U.S. military’s Central Command published a black-and-white video showing what appeared to be special forces fast-roping down from a…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University officials in Missouri are urging students and city residents to cooperate with efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus as students begin moving back to campuses. Students started returning to the University of Missouri campus in Columbia on Wednesday. Columbia Mayor Brian Treece asked the students to resist parties,…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden is making his first appearance with newly chosen running mate Kamala Harris. The former primary rivals will appear together Wednesday at a high school in Biden’s Delaware hometown to discuss their shared vision for how to defeat President Donald Trump and then lead the country through a pandemic, its…
Wilmington, DE (AP) — Joe Biden has chosen California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, making history by selecting a Black woman for a major party’s presidential ticket for the first time in history. It’s a move that fulfills the wish of Democrats clamoring to see a woman of color on the ticket. The…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is going to prison after his son overdoses on the drugs he was selling. The U.S. Attorney’s office says that 39-year-old Gayron Sloan was sentenced to more than 11 years Tuesday after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm in the furtherance of…
It took six months for the world to reach 10 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus. It took just over six weeks for that number to double. The worldwide count of known COVID-19 infections climbed past 20 million on Monday, more than half of them from the U.S., India and Brazil. That’s according to the…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s top health official insists a statewide mandate for masks and social distancing doesn’t make sense, even though the federal government has designated the state a “red zone” for new coronavirus cases. Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, told KCUR-FM radio for a…
Washington D.C. (AP) — Authorities say a uniformed Secret Service officer shot and wounded a man during a confrontation near the White House that led to President Donald Trump being abruptly escorted out of a briefing room during a televised news conference. The chief of the Secret Service Uniformed Division, Tom Sullivan, says the White…