BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Grand jurors have charged a man with murder in the stabbing deaths of three people at a southern Illinois beauty salon more than a decade ago. The Belleville News Democrat reports one-time suspect 50-year-old Samuel L. Johnson of St. Louis was charged with first-degree murder in an indictment unsealed Monday. He…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – State and federal regulators say 32 disposal wells in northeastern Oklahoma must shut down because they are too near a newly discovered fault line that produced the state’s strongest earthquake on record. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission said Monday that 27 wells under its jurisdiction would cease operations, along with five wells…
Two Frontenac men are in police custody for allegedly raping a teen girl. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that the victim, believed to be at least 17, contacted police Sunday morning. She told them that the men, Alexander Doering and Jeremiah Horsfall-Steinbrenner, both 22 yrs old, lured her to a trailer under the false…
( KTRS ) County Council members are considering a new prescription drug monitoring program for St. Charles County. A public hearing was held Monday night to discuss creating a new measure that would allow the County to operate a program, parallel to similar programs in St. Louis city and county, designed to prevent drug abuse. Those…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A group of clergy and union members rallied outside the Illinois state Capitol to protest what they say is Gov. Bruce Rauner’s efforts to cut social service costs. Springfield home-care provider and Service Employees International Union member Gail Hamilton on Monday called Rauner and legislators who stand with him “immoral.” The…
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(KTRS) – Area around Grand and Interstate 44 will be a bit chaotic for the next two weeks. Monday, MoDOT closed the ramp from Grand to eastbound I-44. Crews will be laying new asphalt to connect the ramp to the new Grand bridge. Drivers will not be able to get onto eastbound 44 from Grand…
(KTRS) – Target plans to hire more than 70,000 employees for the holiday season. There will be hiring events at all 1,800 stores on October 14 and 15. Applications will also be taken online. This is about the same number of workers the retailer hire last year.