PUXICO, Mo. (AP) — Two weak earthquakes rumbled in southeast Missouri over the weekend. Television station KFVS reports that the U.S. Geological Survey recorded both earthquakes Sunday evening near Puxico in rural Wayne County, just north of the Missouri Bootheel. The survey says the first was about 7 miles northwest of Puxico and registered a…
NORTHWOODS, Mo. (AP) — Police northwest of St. Louis are investigating the deaths of two men found less than a day apart as a murder-suicide. St. Louis County police say in a news release that officers were called late Wednesday night to a home in Northwoods to check on the well-being of a person. St.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a 10-year-old boy fatally shot his 12-year-old brother as the two played with a gun they found inside a St. Louis home. Television station KMOV reports that the shooting happened Tuesday night in a north St. Louis neighborhood. Police said the boys were with a parent who was getting…
UNION, Mo. (AP) — A woman photographed carrying a wooden name plate torn from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection faces felony charges for allegedly driving drunk and causing a fatal wreck in Missouri. Emily Hernandez of Sullivan, Missouri, is charged with driving while intoxicated involving the death of…
Police say two victims aged 12 and 13 have been found shot to death inside a downtown St. Louis apartment at 10th and Spruce Streets in what police suspect is a murder/suicide. KSDK reports that St. Louis Metropolitan Police were called to the apartment at around 2 a.m. this morning and found the male and…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The investigator who played a key role in former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation in 2018 has pleaded guilty to evidence tampering. Private investigator William Tisaby entered the plea Wedesday on the misdemeanor charge. Prosecutors dropped seven felony counts including perjury. Jury selection was set to start Thursday. Tisaby was indicted…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The ex-wife of Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens has accused him of physical abuse. That’s according to an affidavit filed Monday in the former couple’s child custody case in Missouri. Sheena Greitens also alleges in the affidavit that Greitens showed “unstable and coercive behavior” in the months leading up to…
BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says nuclear waste buried in a Bridgeton landfill that sits near an underground smolder is more extensive than first believed. And it is part of the reason the $205 million Superfund project announced in September 2018 has been delayed. The EPA had announced a plan to remove…
CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — Officials say the number of deaths has risen to six from a series of fiery chain-reaction crashes involving dozens of vehicles in southeast Missouri on a fog-covered interstate. Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Kinder says Friday that the Mississippi County coroner has confirmed a sixth death, following the report of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Legislation under consideration in Missouri shows that anti-abortion lawmakers in Republican-led states aren’t likely to stop at banning most abortions within their borders. They’re also trying to make getting out-of-state abortions harder. St. Louis-area Republican and state Rep. Mary Elizabeth Coleman wants to make it illegal to “aid or abet”…