ST. LOUIS (KTRS) – An effort to target crime and improve life in over a dozen St. Louis neighborhoods seems to be off to a slow start. In December 2015, Mayor Francis Slay released a detailed plan to target 12 north St. Louis and three south side neighborhoods. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that halfway…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Eric Greitens has been a Navy SEAL officer, Rhodes scholar, White House fellow, charity founder and best-selling author. On Monday, the 42-year-old Republican will be sworn into office as Missouri’s 56th governor. He’s promised to shake up politics, spur economic growth and focus on ethics. He’ll replace term-limited Democratic Gov.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway and her husband, Jon, are welcoming a third son. Galloway announced in a news release Sunday that Joseph Nickels Galloway was born Friday afternoon. She says her new son is “beautiful, healthy and loud.” And her two sons, William and Benjamin, are already proud big…
CAHOKIA, Ill. (AP) – A plane carrying the Dallas Stars hockey team was forced to return to a St. Louis-area airport because of smoke in the cockpit. The Belleville News-Democrat reports the Boeing 737 took off at 11:52 a.m. from the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, Illinois, but turned around within five minutes. Mike…
( KTRS ) A fire forced some residents out of their apartments at a retirement village Sunday night. The fire, at the Friendship Village retirement community in Chesterfield, was called in around 9:30 pm last night. Fire crews were able to douse the flames and say they believe the fire was started by a ventilation…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a motorist died when he was struck and killed after he left his vehicle on Interstate 70 in St. Louis. The patrol says 45-year-old Damon Sleet, of St. Louis, died at the scene early Sunday. Sleet got out of his 1995 Chevrolet Silverado after it…
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ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal judge has ordered Michael Brown’s parents to turn over his education records and certain medical documents as part of their wrongful-death lawsuit over the unarmed, black 18-year-old’s fatal 2014 police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber’s order Wednesday also requires Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A school district that includes students from Ferguson, Missouri, will continue its long-held method of electing board members at large in April, despite a lawsuit claiming the process is racially biased. The lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed in 2014 on behalf of the Missouri NAACP seeks a process…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say multiple people have died and eight were wounded after a lone suspect opened fire at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, international airport. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office tweeted the information following Friday afternoon’s shooting. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief told CNN that authorities “have an active crime scene investigation…