ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis couple has been charged in the drug overdose death of their 8-month-old daughter. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 52-year-old Robert Hasenfratz and his girlfriend, 27-year-old Samantha Poppleton, were charged Tuesday with child endangerment resulting in a child’s death. Hasenfratz also is charged with illegal gun possession. Bond is…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A former Missouri state trooper who was driving a boat when a handcuffed Iowa man fell out and drowned is suing to get his peace officers’ license back. Anthony Piercy filed a lawsuit this week against the Missouri Department of Public Safety and the agency’s director. The Kansas City Star reports he’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A jury has awarded Missouri prison guards compensation for work they performed before and after their shifts.A Cole County jury on Tuesday awarded $113.7 million to 13,000 current corrections officers or those who worked at the Department of Corrections since 2007. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports legal filings in the case say…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — A trip by former Vice President Joe Biden to Springfield, Illinois, has been called off because of illness. Biden had been scheduled to speak Thursday at the Illinois Democratic County Chairs’ Association brunch at a Springfield hotel, but the group’s leader says Biden is under doctor’s orders not to travel. Rock…
CARBONDALE, IL (AP) — The search for a new president for Southern Illinois University could take a year following the resignation of its previous leader following a contentious dispute over shifting state funding between its campuses. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports Board of Trustees members met in a private session for nearly three hours Tuesday to…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The hunt for auctioneers to settle a $9.7 million debt by selling off parts of a valuable collection of Lincoln artifacts, including an iconic stovepipe hat and gloves bloodied the night he was assassinated, began Wednesday, but the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Foundation cautioned a sale isn’t imminent. The foundation voted…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The Latest on Illinois Republicans’ political rally at Governor’s Day at the Illinois State Fair (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Gov. Bruce Rauner has rallied Republicans at the Illinois State Fair by bashing Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan and promising to make the GOP the “majority party.” The first-term Republican rounded…
O’Fallon, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â Two students and a bus driver are recovering after a school bus overturned in O’Fallon. This happened at just after 7 a.m. Wednesday when the school bus was headed to North Middle School in the Fort Zumwalt School District crashed and overturned in a ditch along Hickory Hill at Genteman. The bus driver…
St. Louis, MOÂ (KTRS)Â Â An investigation is underway after two sisters in their fifties were found dead in their north St. Louis home. Police say the boyfriend of one the sisters found made the discoveryTuesday morning at a home in the 3100 block of Whittier Street. Haz mat was called in after preliminary tests of air…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Senator Claire McCaskill continues to speak out against the lawsuit Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley joined challenging the Affordable Care Act. The Democratic lawmaker held a roundtable in midtown St. Louis on Tuesday with those who have pre-existing medical conditions. McCaskill said at issue is that the lawsuit aims to wipe…