COLLINSVILLE, IL (KTRS) 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) 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…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The civil unrest over insufficient air conditioning at the Medium Security Institution seems to have paid off. On Monday, five portable air conditioning units were delivered to the jail, commonly known as the City Workhouse. This was by order of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson. “I support air conditioning at MSI…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have returned to the Capitol for a special session on abortion legislation. Senators met Monday to take up work on a wide-ranging abortion bill. It would impose new regulations on the procedure, including mandatory annual inspections of clinics by the state health department. It would make it a…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The suspect in a standoff with Jefferson County deputies who reportedly fired at officers during a chase on I-55 at I-270 this morning is dead. St. Louis County police released a statement saying the incident began around 9 this morning when a vehicle ran off the road near the intersection of Interstate 55…
Lawrence Henry Gowan is a Scottish-born Canadian musician. Gowan has been both a solo artist and the current lead vocalist and keyboardist of the band Styx since May 1999. His musical style is usually classified in the category of progressive rock
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating the shooting death of a child at the Clinton-Peabody housing complex over the weekend. Police say the 10-year-old boy was shot late Sunday afternoon in the 1400 block of Kealty Lane. The child died after being transported to the hospital. Investigators are trying to determine if it was…