The following release is from the St. Louis County Police Department: On July 9, 2019, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged suspect Dominic Yocco, 19 years of age, of the 1600 block of Celerity Drive in Florissant, Missouri 63031, with four counts of Rape 1st Degree, two counts of Assault 3rd Degree, two…
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA (AP) — Rescuers scoured the Georgia coast on Sunday for four missing crew members of a cargo ship that overturned and caught fire, but the efforts ran into trouble amid the flames and instability of the ship, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Golden Ray cargo ship’s problems began early Sunday…
Lake Ozark, MO (KTRS) Ameren Missouri’s Bagnell Dam at Lake of the Ozarks wins an international award. The company’s “Bagnell Dam Stabilization Project” was awarded the 2019 Top Plant Award by Power magazine. The project was completed 3 months ahead of schedule and on budget in September of 2018, and was the first major structural…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mike Parson is Missouri’s unexpected governor, assuming power when his predecessor resigned in scandal. A little more than a year into his mostly uneventful stewardship of the state, the Republican governor is expected to announce Sunday that he’s seeking a full term, and his folksy…
By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge…
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of people trapped on a scuba diving boat that caught fire off the Southern California coast appear to have died from smoke inhalation, not burns, authorities said Friday. “The indicators are from the preliminary examination of the bodies that the victims died prior to being burned,” Santa Barbara County…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The top aide to former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for helping Stenger carry out his pay-for-play scheme. A judge on Friday sentenced Bill Miller, Stenger’s chief of staff. Miller pleaded guilty in May to theft of honest services through bribery and wire…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Governor Mike Parson is pledging more resources to help combat gun violence in the city of St. Louis. The Governor met with St. Louis clergy members on Thursday to discuss the issue.Parson said he would seek funding to curb violence and address long-term solutions such as education and job training. He…
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations, has died. He was 95. His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe’s death in a tweet Friday, mourning him as an…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspected bank robber wanted by the FBI is now in police custody. 37-year-old Shayne McKee, a.k.a Shayne Shaw, was arrested Thursday. He was wanted for allegedly robbing the St. Louis Community Credit Union in Jennings back in May of 2018.