ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Two small children died after they were left alone in a St. Louis apartment that caught fire and a woman is in custody while the blaze is investigated, authorities said. A 5-year-old girl died Monday at a hospital, a day after the blaze broke out at the Clinton-Peabody public housing…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — Authorities are investigating a shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy in Columbia, Missouri. Columbia Police say the boy died at a hospital around 4 a.m. Sunday a few hours after the shooting happened late Saturday night. Police arrested a 19-year-old man a couple blocks away from where the shooting happened on…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. Forty-year-old Leonard Jerome Wilson, formerly of Camdenton, accepted a plea deal Thursday that requires him to surrender his peace officer license and enter guilty pleas in two related state cases. Federal prosecutors say Wilson was a Camden County sheriff’s…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A former Missouri State Highway Patrol captain who led the policing effort during Ferguson protests is joining the St. Louis prosecutor’s office. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner introduced Ron Johnson Wednesday as law enforcement liaison, a contracted position that will pay $50,000 for one year. Gardner says Johnson will work toward…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Washington Nationals moved a party 86 years in the making from their ballpark’s infield to a booze-filled clubhouse, manager Dave Martinez paused near the dugout and thrust the silver NL Championship Series trophy overhead, to the delight of loud, delirious fans still in the stands. Who would have thought this was possible…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A bill is moving forward that will require St. Louis gun dealers to report failed background checks to police. Board Bill 106 passed unanimously out an Aldermanic committee on Tuesday morning. Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed, the bill’s sponsor, says he pleased with the outcome. “Certainly common sense gun laws…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Victor Robles made an immediate impact in his return to the Washington Nationals’ lineup. After missing five games with a hamstring injury, Robles homered, singled and scored twice over the first six innings of the Nationals’ 8-1 victory in Game 3 of the NL Championship Series against St. Louis. The 22-year-old made manager Dave…
Two men are in custody following a road rage shooting in the 6200 block of S. Lindbergh Boulevard near Flori just after 3:00 o’clock Monday afternoon, according to St. Louis County Police.. The injured man is in his 30’s. He was taken to a hospital for treatment. The shooting occurred while the man was driving…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Trolley service in St. Louis is in jeopardy unless the struggling Loop Trolley company secures more funding. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Loop Trolley Company is asking the county board for help after the city of St. Louis refused to provide more money. The trolley company says it needs to…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A St. Louis police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a female colleague while playing a variation of Russian roulette had a history of forcing other women to also play the game, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the dead officer’s mother. The lawsuit filed Wednesday by…