WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say that a preliminary review by the St. Charles County prosecutor’s office indicates that criminal charges are not anticipated for the driver of an ice cream truck who fatally struck a 2-year-old girl in Wentzville. Police say the girl crossed in front of the ice cream truck as it began driving…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway says cities and counties skipped out on an extra $698,000 in fees that could have gone to domestic violence shelters last year. According to an audit released Monday by Galloway, that’s because state law doesn’t require those court fees to be collected. But Galloway says the…
WARRENTON, MO (AP) — The trial of a suspect facing the death penalty after a triple homicide has been postponed. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 27-year-old Shawn Kavanagh’s trial on three counts of first-degree murder and other charges was scheduled to begin Wednesday. One of Kavanaugh’s lawyers, Robert Lundt, asked for a postponement because he was too…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two people are dead and another is hospitalized following separate shootings in north St. Louis. Police say a man found shot to death inside of a truck on Martin Luther King Drive near Kingshighway late Sunday afternoon. Then around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, two men were shot in gangway near Sherry and…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) – A man is dead following a double shooting in North City. Just after 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, two individuals began shooting at each other in the Walnut Park West neighborhood near the intersection of Goodfellow and Sherry. A bystander was hit, and was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.…
St. Clair County, IL (KTRS) – A man is dead and a woman injured following a car accident in the metro east yesterday morning. According to the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, an SUV was traveling North on Dressel-Schoene Road at North Grove School Rd when a truck traveling westbound entered the intersection with the…
Wentzville, MO (KTRS) (Updated 4 p.m.) Wentzville police say no charges are expected in the death of a two-year-old who was struck and killed by an ice cream truck this weekend. Police say Felicity Karam was struck around 4:00 Sunday afternoon in the 4900 block of Summer Rain Drive. She was taken to an area hospital…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The families of some of the 17 people who died after a duck boat sank in Missouri say federal prosecutors might delay their efforts to get answers about the July 19 crash. The Kansas City Star reports that federal prosecutors have asked a judge to halt the civil lawsuits related…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is coming to Missouri as he pushes for Republican Josh Hawley to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in a critical Senate race. Trump’s campaign on Friday announced the planned Sept. 21 rally in Springfield, Missouri. McCaskill is a top target for Republicans seeking to expand the party’s…
ST. CHARLES, MO (AP) — One of two brothers suspected in the 1984 beating death of an elderly Missouri woman has been found guilty. A St. Charles County jury on Friday convicted 56-year-old Brian McBenge of second-degree murder in the death of Eleonora Knoernschild. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the case was retried this week after an…