( KTRS ) Officials have announced plans to relocate a federal spy agency to a new site in St. Louis rather than across the Mississippi River in southern Illinois. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced on it’s website that its western headquarters will be moved to north St. Louis, in the area that was previously the…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in Moline Acres. At 8:40 p.m. Thursday night, police were called to the 9800 block of Wendell Drive in reference to a call for shots fired. Upon arrival, officers found an 18 yr old male, laying in the driveway of a home. He was pronounced dead…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis’ prosecutor says she won’t be charging two officers in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old last year, concluding that no evidence disproves police claims of self-defense. Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce announced her findings Thursday in the August 2015 death of Mansur Ball-Bey. She called the case “a tragedy…
A 47 year-old metro east man is facing charges connected a bank robbery last month. Police say that William Grier entered a Regions Bank in Belleville, demanded money from a bank teller and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. He remains in jail on $150,000 bail.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The top Justice Department official who defended the president’s health care law at the Supreme Court is leaving his job. President Barack Obama says in a statement that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. is ending his five-year tenure as the administration’s chief lawyer at the high court. Verrilli made the principal argument…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week for a third straight week yet remained near three-year lows as the home buying season progresses. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 3.66 percent from 3.64 percent last week. That is well below its level a year ago of…
The 57-year-old singer was found dead April 21 at his Minneapolis-area estate
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Court of Appeals is being asked to decide if a divorced St. Louis County couple’s frozen embryos are property or human beings with constitutional rights. Jalesia McQueen is suing to be able to use the embryos to have more children. Her ex-husband, Justin Gadberry, says he doesn’t want any…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The man who carried out a murder-suicide at UCLA left a “kill list” at his Minnesota home that led authorities to find a woman’s body, Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. Mainak Sarkar, 38, drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Professor Bill Klug before taking his…
