Arnold, MO (KTRS) A bomb threat against Fox High School prompted this morning’s evacuation of students and staff. Jim Wipke Superintendent Jim Wipke sent the following message to parents: Dear Parents, I want to update you on a serious situation that occurred this morning on the campus of Fox High School. Earlier this morning, we…
Overland, MO (KTRS) The group “Forward Through Ferguson” is sharing its State of the Report results with the community. On Thursday night the first of three town halls was held in Overland. About 50 people turned out for the event to learn about the progress on the recommendation made by the Ferguson Commission. Yinka Faleti,…
(KTRS) Two brothers are killed after reportedly leading several Metro East police Departments on a chase in a stolen car. 28-year-old Rodney L. Williams… and 21-year-old Thomas C. Williams from Alton were pronounced dead at the scene. The brothers wrecked into a tanker truck on route 111 at New Poag Road…around 10:30 Wednesday night…111 was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will urge the defeat of Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill during a campaign rally next week in her Missouri home state. Trump’s campaign says he will rally supporters Sept. 13 in Cape Girardeau and urge them to replace McCaskill with Republican Josh Hawley, the state attorney general who has Trump’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Supporters of opening a new river port in central Missouri are one step closer to their goal. The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission on Wednesday approved an application to create the Heartland Port Authority of Central Missouri near Jefferson City. The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports the commission’s decision mean the project can…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — A judge has ruled that the University of Missouri’s campus ban on concealed guns doesn’t conflict with state law. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Circuit Judge Jeff Harris’s ruling on Wednesday rejected arguments that the ban violates a law protecting state employees from prosecution for having concealed guns in their parked…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — A mid-Missouri man has been sentenced to probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine for catching crayfish and selling them. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Justin Doyle Pierce, of Camden County, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for violating the Lacey Act and commercially exporting the crustaceans. An investigation…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon have moved into southeast Arkansas, bringing rain, the chance of flooding and a slight risk of weak tornadoes before it moves into Missouri and parts of Oklahoma. Meteorologist Thomas Jones with the National Weather Service in Little Rock says the system moved into southeastern…
Clayton, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis man is charged with first-degree arson after prosecutors say he set fire to a home that had 15 people inside. Investigators say 53-year-old Mark Edwin Wright was aware all the people were inside when he allegedly set the home in the 8900 block of Newby in north St. Louis…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after a woman’s body was found outside of a north St. Louis warehouse. Police say a worker discovered the victim in a loading dock area of the warehouse on St. Louis Avenue near Goodfellow at just before 8:30 a.m. Police are calling the woman’s death suspicious. There’s no…