ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri legislator has released a video that he says supports his lawsuit claiming police officers used excessive force while arresting him during a protest of a fatal police shooting. The edited video released Sunday on state Rep. Bruce Franks Jr.’s Facebook page was shot during protests after a white police…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis hospital says at least one employee has been fired for violating a policy requiring flu vaccination. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the policy prompted a protest Tuesday outside Mercy South. Protest organizer Nelia Aubuchon says the fired employee is a nurse who had been granted a religious…
By ZEKE MILLER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin said Wednesday it still expects a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to go ahead as planned despite a suggestion from Trump that it could be canceled. Trump, in an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, said he may cancel…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS , Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who hoped to become the state’s first African-American senator since Reconstruction. The runoff was rocked by the video, in which Hyde-Smith…
Author: Glenn Fuselier Published: November 28th, 2018 12:23 AM CST (KTRS) St. Louis MO A 33-year-old Bonne Terre man is arrested Tuesday night for the shooting death of 34-year-old Christopher Moses of Fenton. Nicholas Wann is charged with 1st Degree murder of Moses, who was found shot to death in his truck over the weekend,…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri will now leave it up to news organizations to pick which reporters witness executions after a journalist was denied access and sued the state. Changes to the state’s execution witness policy are part of a settlement that led U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Public Safety Director’s Office will be audited after an internal review raised red flags about use of taxpayer money. Auditor Nicole Galloway on Tuesday agreed to review the office. Both Gov. Mike Parson and new Department of Public Safety Director Sandy Karsten requested the audit. Karsten had asked…
In a news release, Incoming county councilman and former St. Louis County police chief, Tim Fitch, says the death penalty should be on the table for 53 year old Thomas Bruce. Bruce is accused of sexually assaulting two women and fatally shooting another at the Catholic Supply Store in Ballwin. Fitch is asking the prosecuting…
A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Personal Seat License owners during the Rams’ 21-season stay in St. Louis. This involves three separate lawsuits that were filed on behalf of PSL owners against the Rams after the January 2016 relocation vote by NFL owners. Details of the settlement haven’t…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A British newspaper alleges that Paul Manafort secretly met WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London within days or weeks of being brought aboard Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. If confirmed, the report Tuesday suggests a direct connection between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, which released tens of thousands of…