(St. Louis) -KTRS Thousands of visitors descend on the city this week as the 2017 National Urban League Conference gets underway. Those people are expected to drop in the neighborhood of 3-million dollars while they’re here. On top of the short term benefit to the city’s coffers, Kitty Ratcliffe, president of Explore St. Louis, says…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators weighed Tuesday whether the state’s attorney general should have total authority to prosecute abortion law violations or only if local prosecutors refuse to act. The question of prosecutorial powers is among several differences between the Senate version of the abortion bill and a stricter House version, which Republican…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that he is “very disappointed” in Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Tuesday that he has not made up his mind as to whether to fire his longtime ally. He told the newspaper he is “looking” at the possibility of firing the former…
Former Police Chief Thomas Jackson talks about his new book “Policing Ferguson, Policing America”
COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTRS)Â In a case of mistaken identity that almost turned fatal, three Metro east men are in custody today and charged in an assault on a family that was coming home after an evening out. St. Clair Sheriff’s Deputies say the family had just come home in the State Park area of Collinsville July…
Lynda Schuster is a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor, who has reported from Central and South America, Mexico, the Middle East, and Africa. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Utne Reader, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times Magazine, among other. She lives in Pittsburgh with…
St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  The shooting death of a 10-year-old boy at the Clinton-Peabody housing complex is being called accidental. Police say Anthony Turner was accidentally shot by his 13-year-old brother at the family’s residence along the 1400 block of Kealty Lane  on Sunday afternoon. The child was pronounced dead at the scene. The brother…
CHICAGO (AP) Â Governor Bruce Rauner has summoned lawmakers into special session to settle the public education funding issue weeks before the school bell is set to ring. The Republican ordered the House and Representatives and Senate to report to Springfield Wednesday. This was after the Senate missed a noon deadline to send to him…
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — Investigators say a motorist who died after a shootout with police along a busy Missouri interstate had threatened to kill co-workers and a relative, and was wearing a bulletproof vest. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak on Monday identified the driver as 31-year-old Jerrod Kershaw of Pacific, Missouri. He says Kershaw also…