JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House Ethics Committee is reviewing a complaint against a lawmaker who called for the vandal of a Confederate monument to be hanged. It will hold a hearing Monday at the Capitol on the complaint against Republican Rep. Warren Love. Love expressed hope in a Facebook post that whoever…
Caruthersville, MO (KTRS) The manhunt continues for two inmates who escaped from a jail in southeast Missouri. Authorities say William Carter and Joseph Latamondeer crawled through an air duct to make their escape from the Caruthersville Jail Sunday morning. Carter was behind bars on a charge of 1st degree murder. He’s accused of killing two people…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) It was a violent weekend in the city of St. Louis with more than a dozen people shot. Two of those shootings resulted in fatalities. Police say a woman in her early thirties was shot in the chest Sunday night in the 2500 block of North Grand. She was taken to an…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Gun violence continues in the city of St. Louis, with multiple shootings over the weekend. Police report the first incident happened around 2:15 a.m.on Saturday, where a female victim was shot in the back along the 6000 block of North Broadway in north St. Louis. The victim is listed in critical,…
TEWKSBURY, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered to remember a 42-year-old Massachusetts woman who was among the 58 people killed in the mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival. The service for Rhonda LeRocque was held Saturday in the auditorium of Tewksbury Memorial High School. WBZ-TV reports that the Tewksbury woman…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have arrested five people in Ferguson following the latest round of protests over a white former St. Louis police officer’s acquittal last month in a black suspect’s shooting death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police told about 50 protesters gathered Friday outside the Ferguson police station to leave several…
By SUDHIN THANAWALA and ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — They fled in fear nearly a week ago. Now they’re ready to go back. While wildfires are still burning powerfully in parts of Northern California, some of the tens of thousands of evacuees are getting antsy to return to homes that aren’t under immediate…
CROFTON, Md. (AP) — A Maryland native who has been in a coma since being injured in a mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas has woken up and taken her first steps. According to a GoFundMe page set up for Tina Frost, the 27-year-old on Friday took three steps to a chair, and…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Gun violence continues in the city of St. Louis, with four people shot on Saturday. Police report the first incident happened around 2:15 a.m. where a female victim was shot in the back along the 6000 block of North Broadway in north St. Louis. The victim is listed in critical, but…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least two gun control measures could be addressed in the upcoming veto session of the Illinois General Assembly. The proposed measures come as reaction continues to the mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and more than 500 wounded, The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reported. The legislation introduced…