ST. LOUIS (AP) – Jury selection has begun in the murder-for-hire trial of a former suburban Chicago police officer who’s accused of plotting to kill the prosecutor who put him behind bars in his third wife’s death. Sixty-two-year-old Drew Peterson was convicted in 2012 of first-degree murder. Kathleen Savio’s death eight years earlier initially was…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Â A group of activists are calling for a special prosecutor to handle the case in which a former police officer is accused of killing a man while on duty. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce filed first-degree murder charges Monday against Jason Stockley, more than four years after the shooting death…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â A man is dead following an overnight shooting in north St. Louis. Authorities say the victim was found shot to death early Friday morning in the 4100 block of West Florissant. There’s no word of any arrests or a motive. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. This brings the unofficial murder…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Prosecutors have dropped charges of trespassing and interference with police officers against two reporters arrested while covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri. St. Louis County spokesman Cordell Whitlock tells The Associated Press the charges were dismissed Thursday against The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and The Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly. The…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Matt Carpenter homered and drove in a career-high six runs and Matt Adams added four RBIs to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 13-7 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Thursday night. St. Louis, which has won three of four, scored a season-high six runs in the fourth inning to…
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Martin Jones made 22 saves in his second straight shutout and Tomas Hertl scored twice to give the San Jose Sharks a series lead for the first time in four trips to the Western Conference final with a 3-0 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 3 on Thursday…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Efforts are underway to save the historic Buster Brown building in north St. Louis. The more than century old structure which housed the former shoe factory is subject to eminent domain as a result of the planned NGA headquarters. Owner Jim Osher wants to move the twenty-million pound building across the…
Illinois’ unemployment rate has increased for six straight months
More Missouri towns have lost residents over the last five years than have gained
