HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) – Four alleged members or associates of a white supremacist gang known as the Aryan Circle have been indicted after an assault in eastern Missouri. The indictment says the four, and others, assaulted a person called “C.B.” in Jefferson County in November 2013. The indictment says the four, and others, assaulted a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking his immigration message to Missouri as he continues his campaign rally blitz leading up to the midterm elections. Trump is set to appear Thursday night in Columbia, home of the state’s largest university. It will be his second rally in an 11-stop, eight-state tour designed to boost…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities say four people have been charged with killing and robbing a man after luring him to a St. Louis neighborhood under the guise of a drug deal. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Rachel Nixon, 27-year-old Ammizabad Johnson, 40-year-old Karen Ann Quinn and 25-year-old Darean Marshall were charged this week…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A Ferguson protester has said she believes her son was killed in retaliation for her activism, even as police investigate the man’s death as a suicide. Relatives found 24-year-old Danye Jones hanging by a bed sheet from a tree behind the family home on Oct. 17. St. Louis County police…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A growing movement to curb partisan gerrymandering will be put to the test Tuesday by several state ballot measures that are intended to overhaul the way congressional and state legislative districts are drawn. While they differ in how to do that, the proposals in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah all…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The chairwoman of the Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission says an inspector general to investigate alleged misconduct will be appointed by next month. Republican Rep. Avery Bourne of Raymond heads the bipartisan panel of eight legislators. She says the commission will interview candidates recommended by an independent committee which met Thursday’s deadline.…
The Coast Guard has rescued a man from the Mississippi River after he was involved in a two-car accident Thursday morning at around 8:30 on the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. St. Louis firefighters report the man, who was wearing a hospital gown, jumped 100 feet into the river and was in the water for…
(KTRS) St. Louis MO Expect longer voter lines Tuesday in this year’s mid-term elections. Election officials are preparing for the greater turnout. There are 52 issues to vote on this Ballot. Election officials say they are worried about long lines and reportedly are going to have more volunteers on staff. They say they will have…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri election officials are expecting voter turnout in Tuesday’s midterm election to be the highest in more than two decades. Estimates submitted to the state by local election officials project that nearly 2.3 million people will cast ballots. That would equal almost 55 percent of registered voters. The last presidential…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A caregiver has been arrested in the death of a 4-year-old Missouri boy whose body was found almost a week after she reported him missing. Jefferson City police said in a news release Wednesday that 26-year-old Quatavia Givens has been booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree child abuse resulting…