BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – More than 160 people are believed to have been arrested during weekend protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where last week a black man was fatally shot by police. At least 30 of those arrests came Sunday night, as a few hundred people tried to block the on-ramp of Interstate 110.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – For 50 years, an unsolved mystery in St. Louis centered around who piloted the small plane that flew through the legs of the newly-completed Gateway Arch in 1966. A suburban St. Louis woman says it was her father. The 630-foot tall monument was newly completed when, on June 22, 1966, a small…
( KTRS ) A new report says court fees and fines in Illinois have ballooned over the years because they’ve become bloated with surcharges to pay for programs and services. Sometimes the added surcharges fund things unrelated to a case, such as law libraries and zero-interest loans for fire departments to buy new trucks. The…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s GOP candidates for governor are weighing in on policies that would affect LGBT people. The Republican candidates are businessman John Brunner, former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens, former U.S. attorney and House speaker Catherine Hanaway and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. The four decried guidance from Democratic President Barack Obama’s…
( KTRS ) Police in O’Fallon, MO. say four teens robbed victims after luring them to a specific location using the new ‘Pokemon Go’ smartphone game. Police said Sunday that four teens used the game to draw victims to a spot where they were waiting, and then robbed them. The recently released game sends players…
St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — Police used smoke bombs to clear demonstrators blocking Interstate 94 in St. Paul late Saturday night during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana. The smoke was used after about 200 protesters refused to leave the roadway just after midnight as police…
St. Louis County, MO Â (KTRS) Â A man is dead after being shot by an off-duty St. Louis County Police officer. Police say the 20-year-old man was try ing to break in to the officer’s south county home in the 10000 block of Lakeshire Drive at just before 6 p.m. Saturday. Â The suspect attempted to gain…
Ballwin, MO Â (KTRS) Â The Ballwin Police Department has released the identity of the officer who was shot during a traffic stop on Friday. The injured officer has been identified as 31-year-old Mike Flamion. He joined the Ballwin Police Department in 2014. Flamion previously served as an officer with the DeSoto Police Department for 7 years.…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A lottery official says a jackpot-winning Mega Millions ticket worth an estimated $540 million was sold in Indiana. Virginia Lottery spokesman John Hagerty tells The Associated Press it was the only jackpot-winning ticket in Friday night’s Mega Millions drawing. The consortium of lottery organizations that runs Mega Millions said a ticket matching…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a bill into law that will restrict access to video from police car dashboard and body cameras. Nixon signed legislation Friday that will restrict public access to video footage until investigations are finished. It also allows recordings in nonpublic areas to be restricted except…