LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man facing felony child sex and abuse charges in Nevada and a separate murder charge in Illinois, where the body of his 6-year-old daughter was found, won’t see a trial until next year after a judge granted his court-appointed lawyer more time to prepare. Jason Scott Quate’s trial had been…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine declared Friday she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, all but ensuring that a deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to the nation’s highest court despite allegations that he sexually assaulted women…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Schnuck Markets has announced it’s opening nine of the 20 former Shop ‘N Save stores it recently acquired next week. Each store will be closed and two and a half days before reopening. During the days the store is closed, existing pharmacy customers will still be able to drop off and pick up…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — An Arkansas man who killed himself during a 1999 police standoff at a Missouri motel was a killer and rapist who strangled a South Carolina woman in 1990 and gunned down a Missouri mother and daughter eight years later, authorities said Friday. Advancements in DNA testing enabled investigators to link…
REEDS SPRING, MO (AP) — Authorities say a 75-year-old man was killed when he lost control of a golf cart and drove into Table Rock Lake. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victim as Ray Eutsler, of Galena, Missouri. The patrol says he suffered an unknown medical issue Thursday afternoon before losing control of…
CHICAGO, IL (AP) — The Illinois Pollution Control Board has refused to adopt a proposal by Gov. Bruce Rauner to relax limits on pollution from the state’s coal-fired power plants. The proposal by Rauner was intended to help a struggling industry. The proposed amendments to the state rules would have affected eight plants operated in central…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A suspect is being sought in connection with a fatal hit and run in north county. Police say a man in his late fifties was struck by a passing vehicle around 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the 9700 block of Halls Ferry Road. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. There’s no…
New Madrid, MO (KTRS) Investigators say they have identified a suspect in a twenty year old murder case of a southeast Missouri mother and daughter, but that suspect has died. According to the investigation, DNA evidence has linked the suspect to the 1998 fatal shootings of 37-year-old Sherri Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter, Megan. The…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after a developmentally disabled Missouri man’s body was found encased in concrete after he went missing from a supported living home. Rudy Veit, an attorney for the mother and sister-in-law of Carl DeBrodie, said Thursday that details of the…
CLAYTON, MO (AP) — The mother of a 3-year-old boy who was accidentally shot and killed in her north St. Louis County home was sentenced to five years of probation. Semaj Porter was sentenced Wednesday for child endangerment in the December 2015 shooting of her son, Xavier “Zae” Robinson. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Porter was working…