Creve Coeur, MO (KTRS) The cause of a fire at a west county church is being investigated. A fire broke out Tuesday night in the sanctuary at St. Monica’s Catholic Church in Creve Coeur. No one was injured in the fire, but the church was heavily damaged. Wednesday morning Mass was moved to the parish…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis man is accused of striking his younger sister with his car after getting drunk. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the 53-year-old man and his 39-year-old sister were drinking together Monday night when he became irate and assaulted her. Police say the man left in a vehicle, returned,…
Starting in January TV crews with A&E’s show “The First 48” will be following homicide detectives in St. Louis. The show’s title “The First 48” refers to a term used by police, in which, those cases that are not solved in the first two days are less likely to be solved at all. The current…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A recent report by a Missouri task force says the state’s public universities and community colleges should not stray from the types of degrees their institutions can grant unless they have a good reason to do so. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Missouri lawmakers asked the task force, made up…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating a double shooting. Police say the shooting took place just before 11 pm Tuesday night near the intersection of Whittier and Dr Martin Luther King Drive. Two victims were found at the scene and taken to an area hospital, their conditions remain unknown at this time.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens has chosen a northeast Missouri woman to be the next director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Greitens announced on his Facebook page Tuesday that he had chosen Chris Chinn, 41, to lead the department. She and her husband, Kevin, are fifth-generation farmers who raise hogs,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – One of mid-Missouri’s fastest growing tourist attractions is a place where nobody wanted to be prior to its closing in 2004 – the Missouri State Penitentiary. The Jefferson City News Tribune reports that 32,811 people this year visited the old state prison, a haunted-looking place that first opened in 1836.…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Actress Carrie Fisher, who found enduring fame as Princess Leia in the original “Star Wars,” has died. She was 60. Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd, released a statement through her spokesman saying Fisher died Tuesday just before 9 a.m PST. Lourd said her mother was “loved by the word and she will…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The New York State attorney general’s office says Donald Trump must freeze his plan to dismantle his charitable foundation because state prosecutors are probing whether the president-elect personally benefited from its spending. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement Tuesday that the Donald J. Trump Foundation is still…
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Uber’s push to expand into upstate New York is prompting debate over whether drivers should be fingerprinted. Uber drivers in New York City are already fingerprinted, as are regular taxi drivers in much of the state. Backers say it helps ensure potentially dangerous criminals don’t wind up driving the public. But…