East St. Louis, IL (IL) An overnight fire at an East St. Louis apartment complex for the elderly and disabled is to blame for injuring three people. The fire broke out on the fourth floor Orr-Weathers Apartment at just after 2 a.m. Wednesday. The building had to be evacuated. Fire officials say residents should be…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) A group of Ferguson residents continue to call for the closing of Ferguson Market,citing criminal activity. However, Ferguson Police Chief Delrish Moss says there has been no credible evidence of any such activity, “We don’t have anything to support that. We’re not the only agency that’s looked into the Ferguson Market and…
(St. Charles) -KTRS Within a span of 14 days St. Charles City Police say the suspect has gone into the banks, handed the tellers a ‘hold up’ note while implying he has a weapon, and fled with unspecified amounts of money. He has hit the First State Bank on Old Highway 94, the Commerce Bank…
(St. Louis) -KTRS Thousands of visitors descend on the city this week as the 2017 National Urban League Conference gets underway. Those people are expected to drop in the neighborhood of 3-million dollars while they’re here. On top of the short term benefit to the city’s coffers, Kitty Ratcliffe, president of Explore St. Louis, says…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators weighed Tuesday whether the state’s attorney general should have total authority to prosecute abortion law violations or only if local prosecutors refuse to act. The question of prosecutorial powers is among several differences between the Senate version of the abortion bill and a stricter House version, which Republican…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that he is “very disappointed” in Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Tuesday that he has not made up his mind as to whether to fire his longtime ally. He told the newspaper he is “looking” at the possibility of firing the former…
Former Police Chief Thomas Jackson talks about his new book “Policing Ferguson, Policing America”
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…