JOPLIN, MO (AP) — Authorities say a hit-and-run driver struck and killed an 8-year-old girl as she waited to board a school bus in Joplin. The Joplin Globe reports that that the crash happened Thursday morning. Initial reports described the vehicle that struck the girl as a white semi pulling a white trailer. But Joplin Police…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is asking the full Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case of a death row inmate who claims lethal injection would be unconstitutionally cruel due to his medical condition. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Hawley has requested an en banc review in the…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities say a burned body has been found inside a trash bin in a St. Louis neighborhood. Police say the discovery was made Wednesday in the city’s Baden neighborhood. Homicide and bomb and arson crews responded to the scene. No other details were immediately released, including the name of the…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Those who want to get a jump on the November election need not wait. Early voting in Illinois begins Thursday across the state. But voters will have to visit their county clerk’s office or the office of their local election authority to do so. Those who aren’t registered to vote may…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A former hall monitor at a St. Louis high school has been charged with having sex with a 16-year-old girl at the school and her father’s home. Twenty-four-year-old Devyn Rhodes was charged Tuesday with two counts each of second-degree statutory rape and having sexual contact with a student. Bond is…
Pagedale, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing Pagedale teen. Police say 15-year-old Ashunee Armstrong hasn’t been seen since Monday night. She contacted her father through Facebook and indicated that she may harm herself. Armstrong is described as black, 5’04” in height, weighing 120 lbs, with black hair, brown eyes, and…
Bridgeton, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â The EPA is expected to officially sign off on a final plan Thursday morning to clean up radioactive waste at the Westlake Landfill in Bridgeton. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports the plan differs from one discussed earlier this year, in that it will cost $30 million dollars less, and finish up a…
Freeburg IL (KTRS) A vigil will be held at the accident site where a young teen was struck and killed. The Freeburg eighth grader who was killed while riding his bike, is identified as 14-year-old Mason Schmittling. The driver of the SUV that struck Schmittling is cooperating with police. Yesterday, family and friends constructed a…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A victims’ support group is putting pressure on Missouri’s governor to intervene in a state investigation of potential clergy abuse, but Gov. Mike Parson’s office says he doesn’t have the authority to act at this point. Missouri leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests in a Wednesday…
St. Louis, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â The plan to bring Major League Soccer to St. Louis is being revived. According to a story first reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, an official in Governor Mike Parson’s office said that officials with the state Department of Economic Development met with Major League Soccer representatives as recently as Tuesday,…