St. Louis County expects the first shipments of coronavirus vaccine to arrive by the end of this week. County Executive Sam Page says hospital workers will be vaccinated first, later this month. Page expects it to take several months for the vaccine to be distributed widely.  A total of 150,000 doses of the vaccine are expected…
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has stepped up his public relations campaign to convince Illinois residents that an experimental coronavirus vaccine that could be authorized by the federal government this week will be safe to take. Pritzker and the state’s public health director, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, said the initial 109,000 doses of a vaccine…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials have certified this year’s election results showing that President Donald Trump easily won the state’s 10 electoral votes over Democrat Joseph Biden. The State Board of Canvassers said Tuesday that Trump won 56% of the vote to Biden’s 41%, with the remainder going to lesser-known candidates. The board…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Fire Marshal is warning holiday revelers about the dangers of home fires posed by holiday decorations. Fire Marshal Matt Perez says statistics from the National Fire Protection Association indicate that two out of every five home-decoration fires occur because decorations are placed too close to a heat source.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man is dead after being shot during a carjacking at a St. Louis gas station. Police say the crime happened just after 2 a.m. Monday at a Phillips 66 station in north St. Louis. Officers found the victim, who was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The victim’s name…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities said a St. Louis police officer shot and killed a burglary suspect after the man lunged at him while holding a screwdriver. Police Chief John Hayden said the shooting happened Sunday morning while officers were searching a building in the 4400 block of Gravois in south St. Louis. Hayden said…
OLIVETTE, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man is charged first-degree murder after a woman was shot and killed when she was caught in crossfire on the interstate near St. Louis. Thirty-year-old Calvin Pittman, of Ferguson, was charged Friday in the death of 46-year-old Kristen Whitted in Bridgeton, who was shot Monday as she drove…
Child sex charges have been filed against 50-year old Robert Ross of St. Peters. St. Louis County Police say Ross worked as a St. Louis Public Schools security/safety officer from from 2003 to 2006. He’s been charged with first-degree statutory rape, four counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, and three counts of first-degree child molestation. Three…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is getting vaccines for about an additional 170,000 people in mid-December. State health department Director Randall Williams on Thursday said more Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are coming Dec. 21. Missouri is set to get vaccines for 51,000 people sometime before then. Missouri is following guidance from the Centers for Disease…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS)Â Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Thursday that a new unit has been formed in his office to tackle cold case homicides in Missouri, and that the new unit has already brought charges in its’ first murder case. The 1986 Franklin County disappearance and murder of Kristen Edwards. Her partially-covered body…