St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Nearly 200 fugitives wanted for violent offenses are off the streets as a result of a federal operation. During a Thursday morning news conference in downtown St. Louis, members of federal, state, and local law enforcement announced that 162 suspects were arrested in the St. Louis-area through Operation Triple Beam. “This…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The City of St. Louis will waive the residency requirement for up to 50 new police recruits to attract more officer candidates. Beginning December 1, the Civil Service Commission will issue waivers to qualified new recruits living outside the city limits. The Commission approved the change at Mayor Lyda Krewson’s request. In a…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A St. Louis man is under arrest in an incident in which a motorist drove onto a lawn and around a school bus stop in Ballwin Tuesday morning. A video widely circulated on social media shows the school bus stopped to pick up students while a car approached from behind the bus and…
ST. PETERS (KTRS) Police in St. Peters say a Ft. Zumwalt High senior is charged with making a terrorist threat over social media … specifically, Snapchat … that he would bring gun to school yesterday (Thursday). The student later told police he was joking. Police never found any gun. The student is identified as 17-year-old Parker…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis Police are looking for a suspect in a kidnapping and robbery in the Central West End. Police say it happened Thursday morning, Sept. 6. The victim was sitting in his car in the 5100 block of Westminster Place when the suspect entered his car from the back seat and pointed…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) For years, medical researchers have said aspirin helps prevent heart attacks and heart disease. Two new studies, however, cast doubt on that long-held belief. Professor Andrew Kates with Washington University’s School of Medicine, who is a cardiologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, was at the presentation of the studies in Germany. He says one study…
A Wentzville house explosion kept firefighters busy overnight. The Blaze broke out around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning on Bonnie Brook Lane. The house was fully engulfed. No one was home at the time and the cause is under investigation. =================== Six dogs are saved from a house fire Monday night. St. Louis firefighters spent the…
(KTRS) One person is dead and another seriously injured after a head on collision in Jefferson county Missouri. The Missouri Highway Patrol says 43 year-old Michael J. Hoyle of Fredericktown Missouri failed to make a turn on Highway 110 near Upper Plattin Rd. Wednesday and hit another vehicle head-on. Hoyle died on the scene. The…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis police are seeking the public’s help in finding a car taken in a carjacking and used in the murder of Armond Latimore Saturday, Aug. 18 – the day when Latimore turned 17. Police say Latimore was fatally shot in the 3100 block of North Grand Saturday afternoon. About an hour…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis tourism officials are busy using the positive media attention from the PGA championship as a platform for better publicity nationwide. Officials with Explore St. Louis estimate more than 80,000 people from outside the region came to St. Louis for the PGA tournament. They also estimate the championship generated about $100 million…