Amanda is a hardworking Midwestern girl. She enjoys helping out her dad on their farm. When she’s not picking up trays of chicken wings or bales of hay, you can find Amanda hiking, four wheeling or working out. If it’s Sunday, you’ll find her teaching Sunday School to preschoolers at her hometown church. Amanda was selected from a…
University City, MO (KTRS) An elderly man is dead following a house fire in University City. Firefighters were called to the burning home on Plymouth Avenue near Pennsylvania at just before 7 p.m. Thursday. After arriving, firefighters found the 82-year-old victim unresponsive. He was taken to an area hospital, where he died. The victim’s name hasn’t…
Jerome, MO (KTRS) Authorities say a woman has drowned in the Gasconade River in mid-Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports divers recovered the body of 35-year-old Dorca Reyes-Deleon, of St. Robert, on Thursday afternoon near the railroad bridge over the river in the Phelps County town of Jerome. Reyes-Deleon had been swimming with a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A car passenger who was shot on Interstate 70 in St. Louis has died, days after the shooting. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 26-year-old Kenneth Woods-Bey of Maryland Heights was riding in a car with three others about 4 a.m. Sunday. Someone pulled alongside and began shooting. Woods-Bey was critically injured…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The NAACP is moving forward with a travel advisory warning people to be careful while in Missouri because of a danger that civil rights won’t be respected. Missouri NAACP President Rod Chapel said Thursday that national delegates voted the day before to adopt the advisory, which was put in place…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The children of a woman who was among four people killed when a steam-filled tank weighing nearly 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms) exploded at Loy-Lange Box Co. in April and flew onto a building are suing the plant. Online court records show that Tonya Gonzalez’s children, Nathan and Nicole Favignano, filed the wrongful death lawsuit…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) The state of Illinois says it’s suspending the operation of all amusement rides similar to the one involved in a deadly accident at the Ohio State Fair. Amusement rides remained closed at the Ohio fair Thursday, a day after a man was killed and seven other people were injured when a ride broke…
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