By DAVID A. LIEB, SUMMER BALLENTINE and BLAKE NELSON , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former campaign aide to Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens testified that he was duped into taking the fall when the governor’s campaign was trying to explain how it had gotten a list of top donors to a veterans’…
JEFFERSON CITY (KTRS) A bipartisan report from a Missouri legislative committee concludes Governor Eric Greitens lied about the use of a nonprofit donors list for his 2016 campaign. The report says Greitens signed an agreement in 2012 he would not disclose information from a donors list for the veterans charity he founded called The Mission Continues.…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis Police say the suspect in Sunday night’s fatal shooting at Balpark Village – Scotty Joseph Lee – has turned himself in. On Twitter Wednesday morning, police confirmed he turned himself in to the homicide division at police headquarters downtown. A warrant charging him with first-degree murder, assault and two armed criminal…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has sent troops to Arizona to assist with border security. Four soldiers in Missouri’s National Guard and a UH-72 Lakota helicopter deployed Tuesday, according to a statement from Gov. Eric Greitens. The statement says the soldiers will provide aerial surveillance, and will not directly participate in law enforcement. In…
By CLAIRE GALOFARO , AP National Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — He felt like an invisible force was drawing him into the parking lot, past the four new white crosses in the driveway, the balloons and the flowers, and the letters addressed to the dead. He felt it pulling him into his regular spot, the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ attorneys have suggested a “political operative” was behind the release to the media of a recorded conversation between a woman and her then-husband in which she graphically describes her affair with the future governor. Now the defense believes a new revelation in the criminal case that spun…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis Police have issued warrants for the arrest of a suspect in Sunday night’s shooting at Ballpark Village that left a father and newlywed from Spanish Lake … 38-year-old Corey Hall … dead. Maj. Mary Warnecke says the warrants for first degree murder, first degree assault and armed criminal action have been…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) St. Louis County’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program is marking its one year anniversary. During a Tuesday news conference, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger said the program has expanded to other jurisdictions. “We started a County PDMP because Missouri was the only state without such a program,” said Stenger “We…
Belleville, IL (KTRS) Natural gas is suspected as the cause of a house explosion in Belleville. Firefighters responded after an explosion at a home along the 400 block of 40th Street around 4 a.m. Tuesday. This caused a neighboring home to catch fire. No injuries were reported. Fire officials say both homes were vacant and believed…
JEFFERSON CITY (KTRS) Despite efforts by Missouri Governor Eric Greitens’ legal team to dismiss her claims, a Missouri House investigatory committee backs up the testimony of a woman with whom Greitens had an affair three years ago. In its follow-up report to its initial report it released this past month, the committee says a video interview…