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…
DAYTONA BEACH, FL (AP) — Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 for the third time when he beat Ryan Blaney to the finish line in the second-closest finish in race history. The win for Joe Gibbs Racing came as Ryan Newman was wrecked as the leader and crossed the finish line with his car on…
Irving, TX (AP) The Boy Scouts of America has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces a barrage of new sex-abuse lawsuits. The filing Tuesday in Wilmington, Delaware, is an attempt to work out a potentially mammoth compensation plan for abuse victims that will allow the 110-year-old organization to carry on. It could be one…
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — More than 300 American cruise ship passengers, including 14 who tested positive for coronavirus, are being quarantined at military bases in California and Texas after arriving from Japan on charter flights overnight. One plane carrying cruise passengers touched down at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California just…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Daytona 500 is set to resume this afternoon under clear skies and without President Donald Trump. The race on Sunday was postponed a day for just the second time in 62 years after it rained moments following after Trump’s ceremonial pace lap. The rain dampened a hyped season opener…