Peoria, IL (KTRS) – Caterpillar Inc. is moving its headquarters out of Peoria. The company announced on Tuesday it will relocate its headquarters to Chicago. The move comes as the company faces a weak equipment market that has been cutting into its bottom line. Last week, the farming and construction equipment maker reported a wider…
Jefferson County, MO (KTRS) Police are looking for a suspect who wore a police academy sweatshirt to rob a bank in Jefferson County. Investigators say the suspect held up the Midwest Bank Center on Imperial Main Street at around 2:45 p.m. Monday. The suspect is described as a white male, approximately 6’2” and weighing about…
( KTRS ) Police are investigating after a man arrived at an area hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. One male victim arrived at the hospital Monday night, in a private vehicle, in critical condition with two gunshot wounds to the back. After investigation police say the shooting took place around 8:40 pm near the intersection…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Catholic schools in St. Louis have been seeing a decrease in Catholic students over the past decade, while also seeing an increase in non-Catholic enrollment. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that in the 11 counties of the St. Louis Archdiocese, Catholic schools lost 22 percent of their Catholic students but saw…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – A suburban St. Louis woman accused of killing a man to shift attention away from herself in another killing has pleaded not guilty. Pamela Hupp of O’Fallon, Missouri, entered the plea Monday. She’s charged with first-degree murder in the August death of 33-year-old Louis Gumpenberger. Trial is set for October.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri senators have taken the final step to deny pay raises for themselves and other elected officials. Senators voted 25-2 against the raises late Monday. They had until Wednesday to act. The vote came after Republican Gov. Eric Greitens put pressure on lawmakers to oppose the raise, which prompted a…
( KTRS) Webster Groves police are searching for a missing runaway teen. Authorities report that 15 yr old Alex Arndt is missing and may still be in the St. Louis area, but he could be attempting to travel to California or Oregon. Alex was last seen wearing a gray hoodie and blue jeans. He’s described…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) – Missouri has carried out its first execution for this year. Mark Christeson was executed on Tuesday evening. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. Christeson was 18 when he and his 17-year-old cousin attacked Susan Brouk at her rural home in Vichy, then killed Brouk, her 12-year-old daughter and her 9-year-old…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis police sergeant randomly shot in the face while he sat in traffic in his department vehicle says he’s wrestling with whether he can remain in law enforcement. Tom Lake tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch one bullet during the November attack hit the father of three just below his…
( KTRS ) St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay took to Twitter Sunday to voice his opinion on the recent refugee ban recently imposed by President Donald Trump. The ban, signed into action last week, blocks refugees coming from countries where the Muslim faith is the majority. In one tweet Slay said “two-thirds of the Syrian refugees…