St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A Berkeley man is facing life behind bars in the murder of his girlfriend. That sentence was handed down Thursday for 29-year-old Ray Ellis in the death of Monica Sykes. The 25-year-old woman went missing in October of 2016. After months of organized searches, her remains were found in a deserted…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is claiming that a video the White House released depicting contact between a White House staffer and a CNN reporter wasn’t altered. Trump tells reporters that the video distributed by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was simply a “close up” and “was not doctored.” But a frame-by-frame…
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and JUSTIN PRITCHARD , Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Neighbors of Ian David Long described the man who shot and killed 12 people at a country music bar as distant in public but combative with his mother inside the suburban Los Angeles home the two shared. One ruckus in April was…
By Glenn Fuselier (KTRS) St. Louis Three people, including a 13-year-old, have been arrested for a string of St. Louis carjackings. Police say two different groups were involved in the carjackings. Seventeen-year-old Deron Mitchell and 24-year-old Denadre Moore were arrested on charges of 1st Degree Robbery and Armed Criminal Action. More charges are pending, including some…
BETHANY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Humane Society says it rescued 16 horses but 11 other horses were found dead on a property in Harrison County. The organization said in a news release that the Harrison County Sheriff’s office contacted them after visiting the property early this week and finding 11 horses dead and decaying.…
By KRYSTA FAURIA and JONATHAN J. COOPER , Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Terrified patrons hurled bar stools through windows to escape or threw their bodies protectively on top of friends as a Marine combat veteran killed 12 people at a country music bar in an attack that added Thousand Oaks to the…
By MARGARET STAFFORD , Associated Press . KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Charges have been filed against the captain of a tourist boat that sank in a southwest Missouri lake in July and killed 17 people, including nine members of an Indiana family, federal prosecutors said Thursday. A federal indictment shows 51-year-old Kenneth Scott McKee…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says 85-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital. The court says the justice went to George Washington University Hospital in Washington early Thursday after experiencing discomfort overnight. The court says the fall occurred Wednesday…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A law enforcement official says authorities have identified the gunman and the handgun he used to kill 12 people at a Southern California bar. The official told The Associated Press the man was 29 years old and deployed a smoke device and used a .45-caliber handgun when he opened fire inside…
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — A sheriff says 13 people are dead, including a sheriff’s sergeant and the gunman, after a shooting inside a crowded Southern California bar late Wednesday. Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean says sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus responded to the scene and was shot after he entered the building. He died at…