ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis County Police are asking any women who have been assaulted by a rape suspect they have now in custody to contact them. The suspect is Shawn Hughes, 36, of the 2400 block of Silkwood Drive in St. Louis. He’s being held in last week’s sexual assault in Overland of a woman…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has approved a measure to make it easier for state agencies to share information about potential child abuse. The measure, passed Thursday in a 31-0 vote, was partially in response to the death of Adrian Jones, a Kansas boy killed by his father and stepmother in 2015…
Florissant, MO (KTRS) A family of three in Florissant is dead in what police are calling a double murder-suicide. Investigators say officers were called to perform a welfare check at a home along the 1400 block of East Duchesne Drive on Thursday afternoon. Officers found the bodies of a man, a woman, and a child inside…
By DAVID A. LIEB and BLAKE NELSON, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Senate leaders expressed reservations Thursday about a massive tax overhaul given initial approval by the chamber, raising doubts about the ultimate fate of the measure. Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard and some other leading senators all said they were…
Clayton, MO (KTRS) Thieves continue to target St. Louis area jewelry stores. The latest incident happened when The Diamond Shop in Clayton was held up at around 10 a.m. Thursday. This is the fourth jewelry storing to be hit in the past two weeks. Earlier this week, a downtown St. Louis jewelry store was burglarized.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have approved an additional $700 million of spending this year, primarily to fund higher-than-expected costs in the Medicaid health care program for low-income residents. The Senate gave final approval Thursday to the supplemental budget bill, sending it to Gov. Eric Greitens. The House approved it earlier this month.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has given initial approval to a proposal that would exempt small farms from parts of the state’s clean water law. The proposal, approved Wednesday, says farms would not need a permit to allow water from their property to run into the state’s waterways, whether from irrigation or…
By JOHN HANNA, Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas agency plans to conduct a full audit of a water park’s inspection records before it reopens this spring, a state official said Wednesday, after criminal charges were filed over the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the world’s tallest waterslide there in 2016. The state…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge reopened fact-finding in a wrongful-death civil lawsuit over a former St. Louis police officer’s fatal shooting of a black man. Attorney Al Watkins, who represents Anthony Lamar Smith’s family, on Wednesday confirmed U.S. District Judge Jean Hamilton’s decision to reopen discovery. It comes…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois State Board of Elections will hold public hearings on the state’s automatic voter registration system before it takes effect this summer. The board says the hearings will explain the system to the public and answer any questions about its implementation. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner approved the automatic voter registration…