Three people were killed and four others critically injured from an explosion at a box company in Soulard this morning. St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson told reporters the blast occurred at the Loy-Lange Box Company on South Russell Boulevard, killing one person and critically injuring four others. The blast propelled a cast-iron boiler from…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The National Weather Service is confirming that a tornado hit the community of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and flipped a mobile home, killing a woman and her 3-year-old daughter. The weather agency said Sunday that a tornado with peak winds of 110 mph traveled for nearly 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) on…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis University Hospital plans to open the first building of a major capital project this week. The hospital will open a $12 million Center for Radiation Medicine on Tuesday. It’s the first structure in a capital project that will lead to replacing the current hospital. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Ferguson’s leadership has changed drastically since the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown put the St. Louis suburb at the center of the debate over the treatment of blacks by the nation’s police forces. The one constant has been Mayor James Knowles III, who is asking voters for another three years on…
( KTRS ) A police officer is recovering after being struck in South St. Louis. Police say the officer was riding at ATV around 8pm Sunday night near the intersection of Vandeventer and Chouteau Aves when he was struck from behind. Thankfully the officer was not seriously injured, but was still taken to hospital as…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating a Sunday afternoon Homicide. Police say the incident took place yesterday around 4:20pm in the 5600 block of Delmar. The victim, a male in his 20’s, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was found unconscious at the scene. No further details have been released. The investigation is ongoing.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating a weekend shooting that killed two men in East St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2nu9qDT ) the St. Clair County Coroner identified the victims of the shooting that happened at a beauty salon on Saturday. The victims were identified as 39-year-old Wilbert Hall Jr.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session visited St. Louis on Friday. Sessions spoke to members of law enforcement along with state and community leaders about the surge in violent crime in America in recent years. During his speech at the Thomas Eagleton U.S. Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, the Attorney General began…
KINLOCH, Mo. (AP) – Police say human remains found last month in the St. Louis suburb of Kinloch are those of a 25-year-old woman missing since October. Monica Elaine Sykes of Berkeley went missing in October. Volunteer searchers found human remains in a desolate area of Kinloch on Feb. 4. A cause of death has…
( KTRS ) Police in North County say a fight between two women, involving knife, led to both of them going to hospital. The incident began around 6pm last night at the North County Recreation Complex. Police say the two women got into an argument, that had something to do with their children. That argument…