O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County is relaxing some restrictions on youth sports as coronavirus positivity rates have decreased among children in the region. The regulations announced Wednesday by County Executive Sam Page fall short of allowing high-contact high school sports such as football and ice hockey to resume. But Page says if the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky. The jury presented its decision against fired officer Brett Hankison Wednesday to a judge in Louisville, where the shooting took place. Taylor was shot multiple times by officers who…
Milwaukee, WI (KTRS) More than 200 people in St. Louis are facing charges as a result of Operation Legend. Attorney General William Barr made the announcement during a news conference in Milwaukee Tuesday. Since it’s launch back on July 8th, Operation Legend has led to the arrest of more than 3500 people Nationally – roughly…
Hobart, Australia (AP) — More pilot whales have been found stranded in Australia, raising the estimated total to almost 500 in the largest mass stranding ever recorded in the country. Authorities had been working to rescue survivors among an estimated 270 whales found Monday on a beach and two sand bars on Tasmania state. A…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police in Louisville, Kentucky, are restricting access to downtown in preparation for the state attorney general’s announcement about whether he’ll charge officers in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death. Taylor’s shooting has been followed by months of protests in the city. The Louisville Metro Police Department said Tuesday that authorities were placing barricades…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The suspect in yesterday afternoon’s officer-involved shooting in North County has died. 26-year old Patches Holmes of the 21-hundred block of Fairhaven was wanted for a parole violation and an outstanding violent crime charge. The incident occurred in the 10- thousand 400 block of Bellefontaine Road. Police responded to a call…
Houston, TX (AP) — Tropical Storm Beta made landfall on the upper Texas coast on Monday night. The storm made landfall about 5 miles north of Port O’Connor, Texas, with maximum winds of 45 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Beta was the ninth named storm that made landfall in the continental U.S. this…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect is hospitalized following an officer-involved shooting in north county. The incident unfolded just after 4:30 P.M. Monday, while county police were attempting a traffic stop on a 26-year-old fugitive on southbound Bellefontaine. The suspected fugitive took off. Stop sticks were deployed, puncturing 3 of his tires and bringing the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The political battle is being quickly joined over replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Almost immediately after her death was announced Friday, Republicans and Democrats were staking their positions on what happens next — and collecting lots of campaign donations for the struggle ahead. President Donald Trump…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Members of the newly formed U.S. Space Force are deploying troops to a vast new frontier: the Arabian Peninsula. Space Force now has some 20 airmen stationed at Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment. The new military branch, pushed by President Donald Trump, has provoked skepticism…