ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say an O’Fallon man has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run crash last October that left a woman dead. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 39-year-old John Springer has been charged with leaving the scene of a deadly crash on Oct. 16. Investigators say Springer was going at least 30…
TROY, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri woman already serving a life sentence for one murder has pleaded not guilty to killing her friend a decade ago. Pamela Hupp entered her plea during a brief hearing Tuesday over the 2011 death of Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria. Prosecutors contend Hupp stabbed Faria four days after persuading her…
LEMAY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban St. Louis man fired at a group of people shooting off fireworks for the Fourth of July, wounding a 9-year-old boy and two women. Twenty-seven-year-old Donald Meek was booked early Monday into the St. Louis County Justice Center on three counts each of second-degree assault and armed…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for firing an automatic rifle while attending a child’s birthday party in 2020. Marco Orr of East St. Louis was sentenced Monday to 63 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in April to unlawful…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Inmates have broken windows, set a fire and thrown debris at a St. Louis jail that has been plagued by uprisings in recent months. News outlets report the riot broke out Sunday night at the City Justice Center. Law enforcement has responded to bring the jail under control. It’s unclear whether…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis teenager is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 9-year-old boy. St. Louis prosecutors said Thursday that 17-year-old Darryl Williams is suspected of shooting Caion Greene on March 7. Police say Caion was sitting in the family’s vehicle while they delivered food to his grandmother…
The Illinois State Police is seeking the public’s help in identifying two persons of interest in a Saturday night East St. Louis homicide. A 49-year-old East St. Louis man was fatally shot in the incident which occurred in the 300 block of North 70th Street. The ISP has released the video below featuring the two…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say shots fired into a moving vehicle left one woman dead and another wounded on Interstate 270 in north St. Louis County. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Dallas Thompson said the driver wasn’t shot but was injured after crashing. He was taken to a…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — St. Louis County Police are investigating a triple homicide in the Florissant area late Thursday night. Police responded to a call of a shooting at 4855 Lockwood Trail shortly after 11:30 p.m. Police arrived to find a 34-year-old woman, her 13 year old son, and 6-year-old daughter all suffering from gunshot…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Two Missouri men were wounded when they exchanged gunfire after one of them broke into an apartment in St. Charles on Sunday. Both men are recovering at hospitals and one of them is facing charges. Prosecutors charged 28-year-old Marshall Funkhouser with burglary, assault and armed criminal action. Police said a…