JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has appointed the first Black woman to serve as a Missouri Supreme Court judge. The Republican governor on Monday named Missouri Eastern District Appeals Court Judge Robin Ransom to the high court. She’s replacing Judge Laura Denvir Stith, who retired in March. Ransom will join Chief Justice…
The manhunt is over in South Carolina. A suspect accused of multiple murders, including two in St. Louis County has been captured by authorizes Monday morning. Investigators say Tyler Terry was spotted by officers in Chester County, South Carolina. They chased him, but he disappeared in a wooded area but was eventually taken into custody.…
RED BUD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police are investigating after an early morning shootout left one person dead and a police officer injured in southwestern Illinois. Police in Red Bud responded to a call of gunfire around 1:40 a.m. Sunday. Police allege a male suspect shot an officer and a second officer fatally shot…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democratic legislators have released proposed maps for the state’s 118 House and 59 Senate districts that they say “ensure the broad racial and geographic diversity of Illinois is reflected in the General Assembly,” but that Republicans called partisan. State Sen. Omar Aquino, chair of the Senate’s redistricting committee, said in a…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A 32-year-old man who used a pistol to threaten a driver and students on a school bus has been sentenced to five years in prison. Christian Goodson, of Berkeley, pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven counts of child endangerment and other charges. Goodson, then the father of a sixth-grader, smashed the window…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two single mothers are among a group of women suing Missouri for denying them access to Medicaid health care as called for in the state Constitution. The two mothers and a third woman sued Republican Gov. Mike Parson’s administration Thursday. Voters last year amended the Constitution to expand access to the…
At a news conference Thursday morning, authorities released the names of two suspects, a man and a woman, in the shooting deaths of a man in Brentwood and a woman in University City over the weekend. Investigators say the two are also suspects in a shootout with police in South Carolina this week. The female…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The CEO of Centene Corp. has called Missouri an “embarrassment” after Republican Gov. Mike Parson and the GOP-controlled Legislature failed to approve funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wednesday that Centene chief Michael Neidorff made the comments to Health Payer Specialist, a health industry trade publication.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals will return to full capacity at Busch Stadium starting with a June 14 game against Miami. Only Texas among the 30 major league teams began this season at 100% after fans weren’t permitted last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Atlanta went to full capacity on May…
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in suburban St. Louis believe that robbery may be the motive in the deaths of two people who were shot an hour apart, and a $30,000 reward is now being offered in the case. Barbara Goodkin was shot around 11 p.m. Saturday as she and her husband drove down…