ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a St. Louis city marshal shot a man after intervening in a violent dispute. Maj. Rochelle Jones says the shooting happened late Friday at City Hall. Jones says the man was shot three times in the leg and his injuries aren’t life-threatening. He apparently didn’t have a firearm. The…
(KTRS) – Donald Trump is expected to be in town Saturday. Ed Martin with the Eagle Forum confirmed that Trump is planning to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly. She endorsed Trump during a campaign event in March. Schlafly died on Monday. Her funeral mass is scheduled for 2 pm tomorrow at the Cathedral Basilica…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A southern Illinois teenager accused of terrorism-related charges has been ordered to undergo a competency evaluation to see if he can stand trial. A Friday court order signed by Judge Jennifer Hightower raises “bona fide doubt” about 18-year-old Keaun L. Cook’s “fitness for trial.” The move postpones a Friday bond hearing.…
NEW YORK (AP) – Hundreds of people who came face to face with the horror of 9/11 are now serving as volunteer tour guides at the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in New York. One is a woman who walked down 82 flights of stairs to escape the burning north tower. Another guide is a…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – A New Jersey appeals court has thrown out the 15-count conviction of a former Rutgers University student whose roommate killed himself after being captured on a webcam kissing another man. The court tossed several bias intimidation counts against Dharun Ravi because of a change in state law. It ordered a new…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A former St. Ann police officer who pointed a semi-automatic rifle at protesters in Ferguson can be disciplined. That’s according to a ruling by the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, which found that Raymond Albers committed third-degree assault and harassment for the incident back in 2014. Video captured Albers pointing a gun at…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Hillary Clinton is offering an intimate look at her Methodist faith and how it has influenced her life in public service. At the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Clinton recalled her father’s nightly prayers, her mother’s time as a Sunday School teacher and the youth minister who took her to see…
Five people are in hospital after a six-car crash in Florissant late Thursday night. The crash happened just around 10 p.m. near the intersection of New Halls Ferry Road and Lindbergh Boulevard, when one southbound vehicle struck 5 vehicles going the other way. Two people were ejected from the vehicles they were in. Five people…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Kansas City Public Schools on behalf of a young child whose hands were cuffed behind his back two years ago when he was a 7-year-old second-grader. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City claims the boy was “crying and…
A teenager has been charged for two armed carjackings that took place earlier this year. Police say 16 yr old Paree Demetrius Starks, has been charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that Starks was allegedly one of four people in…