A valet driver is run over and killed in a metro-east parking lot. Thirty-nine-year-old Kenya Randall was struck and killed while working at the popular Club-Da-Beano Monday night. East St. Louis Detective Lemar Martin says surveillance video shows the driver did brake but then kept going. Co-worker Earlest Johnson says Randall was well liked and…
WARRENTON, Mo. (AP) — A Warrenton woman is accused of killing her 85-year-old mother. Fifty-one-year-old Marlene Wynn was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder. She is jailed on $500,000 cash-only bond. The name of the woman who was killed has not been released. Warrenton police say officers were called to Wynn’s home around 11 a.m. Monday…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A man already imprisoned for armed robbery has been charged in a 1999 murder in St. Louis. Thirty-nine-year-old Deangelo Thomas was charged Monday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 30-year-old Floyd Epps. Epps was found shot to death at a St. Louis park in February…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The Illinois State Fair lost nearly $210,000 on its Grandstand concerts in Springfield last month after seeing record ticket sales a year ago. Figures released by fair officials show it took a big hit over country star Thomas Rhett’s weather-canceled show. The State Journal-Register reports the fair would’ve lost only about $75,000 loss…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Local McDonald’s workers are striking. Tuesday, out-of-town activists and union workers organized a group of local employees in a walk-out style protest of McDonald’s alleged failure to address sexual impropriety and low wages. People gathered outside the McDonald’s on St. Charles Rock Road in St. John during the busy lunch rush. A…
Manchester, MO (KTRS) One person is recovering after a house fire in west county. Firefighters were called to a burning home off of Carman Road near Highway 141 at around 11:45 p.m. Monday. One of the people inside the home suffered burns and was taken to the hospital. The extent of the victim’s injuries hasn’t been…
An auto-accident kills a Warrenton County, Missouri, teenager while heading to school Monday. The Missouri Highway Patrols says 17-year-old Megan N. Gross, of Wright city, lost her life after a car she was riding in, attempted to pass a Semi on Veterans Memorial Parkway near Highway 47. The two vehicles collided, sending the kids car…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s U.S. senators want a review of sexual misconduct allegations made against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Republican Sen. Roy Blunt on Monday said the Senate Judiciary Committee should examine the claims before any further action is taken. The committee was set to vote Thursday. Democratic…
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…