(KTRS) – One person is in custody after an incident at 270 and Ladue road Wednesday. MoDOT was forced to close the southbound lanes of the highway and during the closure, traffic cameras captured a person walking up the ramp to the interstate. The person then engaged in a brief standoff with police, but it…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) –Â Police say a man suspected in the killings to two Des Moines area officers surrendered to a state Department of Natural Resources officer. Des Moines police Sgt. Paul Parizek says Scott Michael Greene flagged down the officer Wednesday morning in rural Dallas County, west of Des Moines, and presented his identification.…
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -Lawyers in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case say his eyesight has deteriorated to the point he can no longer identify his accusers in photographs or otherwise help the defense. The 79-year-old Cosby leaned back in his chair Wednesday as his lawyers tried to get a felony charge dismissed before his June trial…
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities in eastern Missouri’s Ste. Genevieve County are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains in a rural area where a woman missing since 2014 had lived. Sheriff Gary Stolzer tells media outlets the remains were found Tuesday night by a hunter, and that the FBI has been called in to…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri says four students have confirmed cases of mumps and five other students are being tested. The university said in a news release Wednesday that none of the students live in university housing. Some of the students who have been tested are still contagious and the university has…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The board that operates the St. Louis Zoo and museums in St. Louis has turned down a proposal to charge admission to visitors who are not from St. Louis city or St. Louis County. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Zoo-Museum District Board made the decision Monday after former board…
Jefferson City, MO  (KTRS)   The University of Missouri has a new leader. On Wednesday morning, the University of Missouri Board of Curators announced the appointment of Dr. Mun Y. Choi as it’s new system president. Board of Curators Chair Pam Henrickson introduced Dr. Choi  in Jefferson City, making the announcement of the new president of the…
( KTRS ) Tuesday night union employees with Dierbergs supermarkets overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract. The vote among members of United Food & Commercial Workers was 520 to 107.  Local 655 began negotiations with Dierbergs and Shop ‘n Save immediately following a revised contract accepted by Schnucks employees last week. Shop ‘n Save workers will…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri man is asking the state Supreme Court to bar prosecutors from citing past criminal allegations at his upcoming trial on a child sex crime charge because a 2014 constitutional amendment that allows prosecutors to do so wasn’t in effect when the latest alleged crime occurred. Kendrick Tipler pleaded…
CHICAGO (AP) – The race for comptroller, usually a low-profile contest coinciding with Illinois’ gubernatorial campaigns, is in the spotlight during a presidential year with a big money special election offering Democrats an unusual chance to oust Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s hand-picked candidate. The office that controls Illinois’ checkbook is open mid-term because incumbent Leslie…