ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Crimestoppers is offering a $15,000 reward for anyone with information about the murders of three women who hid in a car to escape their killers. St. Louis Police say the three women were shot to death as they tried to escape after burglars broke into their northside home in the 4200 block of…
By PHUONG LE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Video from the cab of the Amtrak train that hurtled off the tracks in Washington state, killing three people and injuring dozens, shows that the engineer did not appear to be using a cellphone or any other personal electronic device just before the derailment, federal investigators said Friday.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted 10 petitions for clemency and denied 78 other requests. The Republican’s office announced the clemencies Friday. The petitions granted were for crimes including retail theft, burglary and drug possession. Some of the cases are decades old, and none of the people were sentenced to prison…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is in Florida celebrating the holidays and a much-needed political victory. Before departing for his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump signed the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul into law. He also put off a government shutdown by signing a temporary spending bill. The tax cut is a long-held Republican goal. Starting next…
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s getting ready to sign into law a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package. It provides generous cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans and smaller ones for the middle class and low-income families. Trump tweeted that he’ll sign the law in the Oval Office…
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on Thursday on a 231-188 vote…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count now stands at 203 after four deadly shootings in north city. Police say a 25-year-old man was gunned down early Tuesday night at the intersection of Page and Belt. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. Then at…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Over a hundred dogs and cats are being nursed back to health at the Humane Society of Missouri after being rescued from a hoarding situation in western Missouri. On Wednesday night, the HSMO’s Animal Cruelty Task Force rescued 84 dogs and 17 cats from a property in Bates County. This is the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) An iconic downtown Chicago tavern is taking on a St. Louis potato chip manufacturer over the rights to the name Billy Goat. The Billy Goat Chip Company of St. Louis has been making potato chips since 2009. Recently, the company decided to branch out …and it entered the Chicago market. That’s where it…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) J.C. Penney has announced it will close its Hampton Village Shopping Center store … which has operated for almost 70 years … next month. None of the other J.C. Penney stores locally are affected. In a statement to KTRS News, the retailer says the Hampton Village J.C. Penney will close January 21, and…