St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A child is hospitalized after being shot in north county. Police say the 8-year-old girl was asleep in the bedroom of the family’s Castle Pointe home in the 10000 block of Count Drive when shots were fired at just before 4 a.m. Wednesday. A bullet traveled through the walls of the…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful…
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge William Alsup granted a request by California and other plaintiffs to prevent President Donald Trump from ending the Deferred Action…
Mascoutah, IL (KTRS) A metro-east Catholic priest is facing charges in connection with child a pornography case. On Tuesday, Father Gerald Hechenberger was charged with sixteen counts of felony child pornography and possession of meth. Hechenberger is an associate pastor of Holy Childhood of Jesus Parish in Mascoutah. Acting on a tip, investigators executed a search…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Efforts continue to raise awareness about human trafficking. On Tuesday evening, the Ferguson Police Department, along with Ferguson Adopt-a-Block and Bott Radio St. Louis hosted a human trafficking forum at Greater Grace Church in North St. Louis County. The forum consisted of three panelists: Pat Bradley, Founder and CEO of…
HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) — Two teenagers are dead after being struck by a car while trying to get their stalled vehicle off a roadway in Jefferson County. Authorities say 19-year-old Genevieve Brown of Festus and 18-year-old Warsha Kumar of Yakima, Washington, were driving a 2002 Land Rover Discovery Monday evening when it stalled on a…
Mascoutah, IL (KTRS) An associate pastor at a metro-east Catholic church is under investigation for child pornography. Police arrested Father Gerald Hechenberger Monday night. Hechenberger is an associate pastor at Holy Childhood Church and School in Mascoutah. Belleville police say the arrest of Hechenberger is the result of a tip alleging that child pornography was…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s re-election campaign says she raised close to $2.9 million in the past few months. Spokeswoman Meira Bernstein on Monday said McCaskill spent about $941,000 in the same three-month time period. A release from the campaign says the senator now has more than $9 million in…
By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s decision to end special protections for about 200,0000 Salvadoran immigrants filled many Salvadoran families with dread Monday, raising the possibility that they will be forced to abandon their roots in the U.S. and return to a violent homeland they have not…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Arnold Police Officer Ryan O’Connor has been taken to a Colorado rehabilitation facility, where he’ll undergo further treatment for injuries he suffered last month. First responder vehicles … fire engines, police cars, etc … lined up along Interstate 64 Monday about noon with their lights flashing to escort O’Connor, who was being taken…