JEFFERSON CITY (AP) The city of St. Louis’s minimum wage could rise to $10 an hour starting next week and to $11 next year, now that the state’s highest court won’t reconsider its ruling upholding it. The Missouri Supreme Court in February rejected claims by business groups that setting a wage higher than the state’s $7.65 one…
ST. LOUIS (AP) An execution date is set for this summer for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal stabbing of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a burglary. The Missouri Supreme Court has set August 22 for the execution by injection of Marcellus Williams for the slaying of Gayle. Williams was burglarizing Gayle’s…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis County police are asking the public for help in identifying the body of an infant a fisherman found in a north county lake. The remains were found April 15th in the 20th block of Behlman Lake Court, in Florissant. Police have been unable to confirm the age and sex of the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An audit launched in the wake of unrest following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson found the city’s court system “in disarray” and disorganized. Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway released details of the audit Wednesday. The report gives the St. Louis suburb’s court system a “poor” rating, the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) Fire officials in St. Louis continue their investigation after a vacant home exploded, sending glass, wood and other rubble flying into the air. The explosion in the city’s Baden neighborhood happened about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. Fire Capt. Garon Mosby says it’s a miracle that no one was hurt. The brick bungalow-style home was completely destroyed,…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Police have released the identity of the elderly woman who died in a fire at a north county retirement community. The victim has been identified as 85-year-old Pearl Turner. Firefighters responded to a fire at the Bethseda Village North Retirment Community at just after 6 p.m. Tuesday. Firefighters discovered Turner’s body…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois officials are poised to consider the status of the pension Dennis Hastert receives for the time he served in the state’s General Assembly. The Illinois General Assembly Retirement System’s board of trustees is scheduled to consider the former U.S. House Speaker’s $28,000 annual pension on Wednesday morning during a meeting…
( KTRS ) Police report that one person is dead following a fatal fire at a retirement home in North County. Just after 6pm Tuesday evening firefighters were called to a fire in a second-floor apartment at the Bethesda Village North Retirement Community on North Drive. Once the fire was doused, the body of an 85…
( KTRS ) Police are looking for a person of interest in a fatal shooting on West Florissant Avenue in early April. Authorities report that Page McCulley was driving east when someone in another vehicle fired shots at her car April 9th in the 5300 block of West Florissant. McCulley was struck by the gunfire…
FULTON, Mo. (AP) – Police in central Missouri’s Fulton say a body found encased in concrete inside a container is likely that of a developmentally disabled man missing for nearly a week from a group home. Police said in a statement Tuesday that the body discovered the previous day in a Fulton storage unit may…