St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) The search is on for a new St. Louis County police chief. On Wednesday night, the St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners hosted the first of a series of public meetings to gather feedback on the selection of the next police chief. Over a hundred residents, along with local…
CHICAGO (AP) — When Patti Blagojevich made repeated public pleas for her husband’s release from federal prison, there was no mistaking her intended audience: President Donald Trump. For nearly two years, the wife of disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich made Trump’s own travails the centerpiece of the strategy to free her husband. She talked…
(KTRS) The suspect in the Sunday shooting of an off duty Calverton Park police officer at a Walmart in Ferguson has been charged today by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s office. 20-year old Fhontez Mitchell of the 1-thousand block of Forestwood Drive in Ferguson is charged with one count of first degree robbery, one…
Three relatives of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth in the bathtub of her suburban St. Louis home are facing criminal charges. An adult female and adult male are charged with child endangerment. And a 17-year-old male is charged with incest as well as statutory rape and statutory sodomy of a child younger than 12.…
The man suspected of shooting an off-duty police officer at a Walmart store in Ferguson is now in custody. St. Louis County police spokesman Benjamin Granda on Tuesday confirmed the arrest. The suspect had been the subject of a manhunt since the shooting Sunday night. The officer works for the police department in Calverton Park,…
A Missouri man convicted of killing an 81-year-old mobile home park manager nearly three decades ago now faces execution in May. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday set a May 20 execution date for Walter Barton. His case has been tied up in court for years due to mistrials, appeals and two overturned convictions. Gladys…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Southern Illinois University School of Medicine will provide health care for inmates at two prisons in a test which the school hopes can expand. Dean and provost Jerry Kruse said Monday the $5 million pilot project with the Illinois Department of Corrections is in keeping with the school’s mission of universally…
(KTRS) St. Louis-based Staenberg Group announcing Monday, it has completed it’s purchase of Chesterfield Mall. Tim Lowe, vice president of leasing and development for TSG says in a statement, “This is the start of Downtown Chesterfield, a high-end, urban, mixed-use development that includes multi-family residential, corporate office, upscale retail and restaurants, a theater, boutique fitness,…
Authorities are searching for a suspect who remains at large after allegedly shooting a 35-year-old off-duty Calverton Park police officer who was working as a security guard at the Walmart store located on West Florissant Avenue.in Ferguson. Ferguson Police Chief Jason Armstrong says a Calverton Park police officer was shot about 7:15 last night after a confrontation with the suspect…
FERGUSON, MO (AP) — A manhunt is ongoing after an off-duty police officer who was working a second job as a Walmart security guard was shot in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson Police Chief Jason Armstrong says an off-duty Calverton Park police officer was shot about 7:15 p.m. Sunday and transported to a hospital where he was…