ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former pastor and owner of a St. Louis pizza parlor and martial arts studio has been found guilty of eight federal charges related to child sex abuse. U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig on Wednesday found Dojo Pizza’s Loren “Sensei” Copp guilty of charges including three counts of production and…
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) A man is dead following a domestic dispute in St. Charles. Police were called to a home in the 1700 block of Lynbrook Drive around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. Upon arrival, officers found a 40-year-old man stabbed in the chest. He was transported to an area hospital, where he died. The victim’s wife…
Two people are charged in the death of a robbery accomplice who was killed by the intended victim in St. Charles. 29-year-old Michael Leslie and 21-year-old Autumn Nuspl, both of Overland, are jailed on $250,000 cash-only bail. They are charged with second-degree murder and other charges in the death of 31-year-old Brady David Wood of…
GRANITE CITY, IL (AP) — Two assistant high school principals in southwestern Illinois will receive $600,000 in back pay to settle a federal lawsuit over sex-based pay discrimination. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Granite City School District 9 denies the discrimination charge but agreed to the payout to Nikki Petrillo and Stacie Miller. Both alleged that for…
ST. CHARLES, MO (AP) — Police say they are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in downtown St. Charles as a homicide. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the man was found Friday night in a popular tourist area near the riverfront. He was later identified as 31-year-old Bradley David Wood, of O’Fallon, Missouri.…
By DAVID A. LIEB , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When then-Missouri state Sen. Mike Parson didn’t agree with a voter-approved law imposing tough regulations on dog breeders, he led a legislative effort to repeal the measure and replace it with a tamer version. Now eight years later as governor, Parson believes a…
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Survivors of a rare December tornado that injured more than two dozen people in a central Illinois city say that two weeks after the storm, they are struggling but grateful for the kindness they’ve been shown in the aftermath. More than 25 people were injured in Taylorville— population 11,000, reported The…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) – The partial federal government shutdown is impacting the St. Louis area The Gateway Arch and the Old Courthouse are closed due to the shutdown. The partial shutdown will also have an impact on farmers, as the USDA will close local and state farm service centers across the United States.
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) The Major Case Squad is investigating after a body was found in an alley in downtown St. Charles. Investigators say a man’s body was discovered on N. 2nd Street and Franklin streets around 7:30 p.m Friday. There’s no word on how the man died. The victim’s name hasn’t been released.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is seeing a dramatic uptick in HIV diagnoses, a trend that is mostly concentrated in the central part of the state, according to health experts. New HIV diagnoses in Missouri increased by more than 10 percent between 2013 and 2016, which is the most recent state data available. But the…