Sauget, IL (KTRS) Â Firefighters have been busy battling a major mulch fire in the metro-east. A massive pile of mulch at the Oldcastle Lawn and Garden on Queeny Avenue in Sauget caught fire late Monday morning. Firefighters from multiple department worked into the evening to bring this fire under control. Fire crews are expected to…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Â The annual Labor Day Parade will be held in downtown St. Louis. The parade is scheduled to step off at Olive and 13th at 9 a.m. Monday. It will make its way down Tucker Street, past St. Louis City Hall and west on Market Street to 15th Street. Thousands of members…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Â Â A suspect is facing charges in connection with the shooting of two St. Louis police officers in an attack that also left a 24-year-old woman in critical condition. Twenty-four-year-old Devonte Morgan was charged Saturday with three counts of first-degree assault and several related charges in Friday’s shooting. Police said a second…
The Latest: Officials monitoring controlled burn at Arkema HOUSTON (AP) —  A man living near a Houston-area chemical plant where a controlled burn is taking place told the Houston Chronicle he heard two booms and saw thick black smoke Sunday after authorities started a controlled burn. The Harris County Fire Marshal’s Office said in a…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois schools will be required to teach financial literacy skills such as balancing a checkbook and putting money into a savings account this school year. The Illinois State Board of Education adopted revised social science standards in 2015, according to The Springfield Journal-Register . Those standards were approved in February 2016…
HOUSTON (AP) — Center Point Energy spokeswoman Alicia Dixon says utility crews have started turning off power to residents who have stayed behind in a flooded area of west Houston where Mayor Sylvester Turner ordered a mandatory evacuation. The area is being flooded by water released from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs. Army Corps of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Democrats say they want to reverse changes in a new Missouri whistleblower law that excludes state employees and public college and university workers from protections against being fired for speaking out against misconduct. Supporters of the law say their goal was to allow safeguards already outlined in court rulings…
HOUSTON (AP) — The medical examiner in Harris County, Texas, has confirmed another Harvey-related fatality. The man found floating in Cypress Creek floodwaters brings the confirmed toll to 44 from Harvey, eight days after the storm made landfall as a hurricane. Harris County is home to Houston. The addition to a list kept by the Harris…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Two men are dead in separate shootings in north St. Louis. Police say a man was shot to death at just before 10:30 p.m. Friday near North Grand and Montgomery. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. Then at just after 7 a.m. Saturday, a 25-year-old man was fatally shot near Semple…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Â Two men are facing charges in connection with a police-involved shooting in north St. Louis. Twenty-six-Year-old Wendell Davis has been charged with gun theft, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a gun, resisting arrest and tampering with a motor vehicle. Twenty-nine-year-old Joshua Polk is charged with resisting arrest and…