WILDWOOD, MO (AP) — Authorities say a driver has been charged with hitting a St. Louis County police officer at a barbecue event while drunk and then driving off. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 47-year-old Kevin Arent, of Warren County, was charged Sunday with driving while intoxicated. He is jailed on $50,000 cash only bail.…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The Illinois State Fire Marshal is offering tips for a fire-free fall . Fire Marshal Matt Perez says leaves and sticks should be removed from gutters so they don’t fuel house fires. Bonfires should be confined to a pit with side walls and should be limited in size. Perez says don’t burn leaves…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) One person is hospitalized in critical condition after an early morning fire in midtown St. Louis. Firefighters were called to a three story home on along the 3400 block of Samuel Shepard Drive around 1:30 a.m. Monday. The victim was rescued from the second floor. There’s no word on what caused the…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — St. Louis plans to change residency requirements to allow the next 50 police recruits to live outside the city limits. Mayor Lyda Krewson announced Friday that the Civil Service Commission voted to waive the requirement that police officers live in the city for their first seven years on the job.…
ALORTON, IL (AP) — The mayor of a southern Illinois city has been charged with official misconduct for operating a police vehicle with its lights flashing. Alorton Mayor JoAnn Reed was charged late Friday, a couple of weeks after a driver told Illinois State Police it appeared a civilian female driver was impersonating a police…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republicans and Democrats are focusing a lot of attention on seven eastern Missouri counties that some say will be pivotal in the U.S. Senate race between Attorney General Josh Hawley and U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. The two parties consider Jefferson County, which is adjacent to St. Louis’ suburbs, as a key…
By JOHN O’CONNOR , AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois political campaigns are traditionally rough-and-tumble, transitory affairs dominated by a good-ol’-boy environment that breeds sexual harassment, intimidation, and bullying, a report on women in politics issued last week found. The Illinois Anti-Harassment, Equality and Access Panel’s review of barriers women face to success…
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has a plan to clean up waste from a century of lead mining in southeast Missouri, but tourism businesses and environmentalists have concerns about it for differing reasons. The Old Lead Belt is centered in St. Francois County, where lead- and zinc-mining operations existed from 1864…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of nonprofit groups that has registered more than 87,000 new Missouri voters — most of them black residents — says it is not working for Sen. Claire McCaskill, but its effort could help her campaign against Republican challenger Josh Hawley. The nonpartisan coalition called Missouri Black Votes wants…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Another homicide is being investigated in the city of St. Louis. Police say a man was found shot to death in the 5900 block of Wabada Avenue late Friday morning. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. This brings the St. Louis murder…