ST. LOUIS (AP) – Joe Pavelski scored two goals, including the go-ahead score in the opening minute of the third period, and the San Jose Sharks beat the St. Louis Blues 6-3 to take a 3-2 lead in the Western Conference final on Monday night. Joel Ward also scored twice including one of two empty-netters…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Randal Grichuck hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the ninth to lift the St. Louis Cardinals a 4-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Monday night. Matt Adams tied the score with a two-run homer off in the seventh for St. Louis’ major league-leading ninth pinch-hit homer of the season. It…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – A former suburban St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to probation for stealing items from a car that investigators had set up as a decoy as part of a sting operation. A St. Charles County judge on Monday suspended prison sentences for 40-year-old Matthew Howze, though he must serve…
( KTRS /KTVI) Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal fire that claimed the lives of two parents and their 11-month-old daughter. The family was found dead after a fire early Sunday morning in north St. Louis. The fire broke out around 4:40am Sunday morning in the 4000 block of Elmbank. Firefighters report that the house…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to amend the state Constitution to allow lawmakers to add voter-identification requirements. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon announced Monday he’s placing the proposal on the general election ballot. That ballot also will ask voters to pick the next president and Missouri governor. At issue are…
(KTRS) – Police are hoping that someone will recognize suspects in a fatal carjacking in newly-released surveillance video footage. Around 10:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue near 11th Street two suspects walked up to Brandi Hill’s car, shot her, and dumped her body in street before driving off in her car. Hill’s nine-month-old daughter was…
CHICAGO (AP) – A plan allowing automatic voter registration in Illinois is advancing through the Legislature despite concerns from the leading state election authority that would have to implement it. Backers want Illinois to join Oregon, California and West Virginia in modernizing voter registration. They say it cleans up voter rolls and boosts civic participation.…
(KTRS) – Two adults and their six-month-old daughter were found dead after a house fire in north St. Louis this weekend. Investigators now believe that the parents, Melvin Thomas and Maruita Jones, were shot. Fire officials say the home had working smoke detectors on the second floor of the home. Homicide detectives are involved in…
Waller could face up to life in prison if convicted
