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 (KTRS) 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. The suspect attempted to gain…
Ballwin, MO (KTRS) 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…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office says the officer who was critically wounded during a traffic stop is white. St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch on Friday charged 31-year-old Antonio Taylor with three felonies, including assault and weapons charges. He concurred with the police assessment that the shooting was an ambush.…
Final Play at Plate Reviewed, Upheld
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Just because Illinois lawmakers approved a stopgap budget doesn’t necessarily mean that motorists will again receive reminders in the mail that it’s time to renew their license plate registrations. The stopgap budget approved last week provides $35 million to cover the Secretary of State’s operations through December but The Pantagraph in…