St. Peters, MO (KTRS) The deaths of a St. Peters couple is being called a murder-suicide. That’s according to investigators who say 41-year-old Kimberly A. Adams suffered a fatal gunshot wound inflicted by her husband, 48-year-old Leslie C. Adams, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officers found the couple in their home on Southwinds…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The top prosecutor in St. Louis has established what she calls an “exclusion list” of 28 city police officers and is reviewing all open cases in which those officers were essential witnesses. The action by Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, first reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and confirmed Thursday by Gardner’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Missouri says it’s setting aside $5 million to help low-income customers with energy bills. Ameren on Thursday announced about $1 million of that will go to groups including the United Way and Heat-Up Missouri to help those hit by high summer temperatures this year. Another…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday appointed a local school board president and a former technical college president to the state’s once-embattled K-12 education board, bringing it close to fully staffed. Seven of eight seats on the State Board of Education now are filled, a step forward after a standoff…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat in a decidedly Republican state, is seizing on an issue that she believes resonates in even the most conservative corners of the state — the financial future of the lowest wage earners. The two-term incumbent campaigned Thursday in St. Louis, where she celebrated the…
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois will use the $108 million it got from the government’s Volkswagen emissions scandal settlement to improve air quality, mostly by replacing old diesel engines with more environmentally friendly options. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen reached a series of settlements in 2016 and 2017 to resolve U.S. complaints. The complaints…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday appointed a local school board president and a former technical college president to the state’s once-embattled K-12 education board, bringing it close to fully staffed. Seven of eight seats on the State Board of Education now are filled, a step…
Berkeley, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Two Berkeley Police officers were taken to the hospital after being injured while responding to an incident early this morning. Authorities say this occurred in an area of the Madelaine Manor Walk apartments. The officers’ injuries are not said to be life threatening. Police still have not released details on the circumstances…
O’Fallon, ILÂ (KTRS)Â Â Three suspects are in custody following a police chase in the metro-east early Thursday morning. Police say this stemmed from a car break in on Liberty Crossing in O’Fallon, Illinois. The chase ended when the car crashed into a utility pole on Route 111 and Horseshoe Lake Road. Two of the suspects got…
(KTRS) One person is dead and another seriously injured after a head on collision in Jefferson county Missouri. The Missouri Highway Patrol says 43 year-old Michael J. Hoyle of Fredericktown Missouri failed to make a turn on Highway 110 near Upper Plattin Rd. Wednesday and hit another vehicle head-on. Hoyle died on the scene. The…