Troy, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing Lincoln County woman. Police say 52-year-old Bonnie Brais hasn’t been seen since Wednesday afternoon. According to the investigation, Brais has a history of mental health issues and has made suicidal statements in the past, including the day she was last seen. Brais is…
CAMDEN, MO (AP) — Toxicology tests show that a boater was drunk when he slammed into a bluff at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks in a crash in which the Kansas man and two others died. The Kansas City Star reports that 24-year-old Daniel Lewis, of Overland Park, Kansas, had a blood alcohol level of 0.088,…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police are looking for fresh leads in the 43-year-old killing of a 9-year-old girl who was abducted while walking home in Springfield and later found in a shallow grave. The Springfield News-Leader reports that the Greater Springfield Area Crime Stoppers issued a plea for fresh information this week to coincide was…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A restored St. Louis prairie of native grasses and flowers is in bloom, but the nature reserve’s conservation is threatened by inaction and invasive plants. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that biologists discovered the 25-acre prairie hidden at Calvary Cemetery in the 1990s, protected from agricultural development. Erin Shank is an urban…
CHESTERFIELD, MO (AP) — The former chief financial officer at Columbia Public Schools has admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from band boosters at a suburban St. Louis high school. The Columbia Daily-Tribune reports that Anna Munson pleaded guilty Thursday in St. Louis County District Court to receiving stolen property. Charging documents say she began making…
FLORISSANT, MO (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suburban St. Louis student after finding a loaded gun and a razor inside the student’s backpack. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the student was taken into custody Thursday at McCluer North Senior High School in Florissant. Police said in a news release that another student alerted school…
ST. CHARLES, MO (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison in the 1984 beating death of an 84-year-old woman during a suspected burglary. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 56-year-old Brian McBenge was sentenced Thursday for second-degree murder in the death of Eleonora Knoernschild, of St. Charles. Her death went unsolved…
(Associate Press) St. Louis Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley used Thursday night’s debate to paint Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill as too liberal for the increasingly red state of Missouri. McCaskill hammered her challenger over his positions on health care and said Trump’s wall was unnecessary. The two squared-off about Federal Tax-cuts and pre-existing healthcare medical…
CHICAGO, IL (AP) — Three men and one woman who say they were sexually abused by priests decades ago filed a lawsuit Thursday against every diocese in Illinois for an alleged ongoing scheme to cover up sexual assault by priests. The lawsuit was filed in Chicago by attorney Jeff Anderson, who has represented clergy abuse…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas water park workers were acquitted Thursday of impeding an investigation into the death of a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated while riding what was billed as the world’s tallest waterslide in 2016. David Hughes and John Zalsman were found not guilty of obstruction of justice in connection to…