By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri governor’s office said Friday it doesn’t have the authority to appoint a special prosecutor reinvestigate the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, despite pressure from Brown’s mother to do so. Lezley McSpadden said earlier in the day that she’d launched…
Kansas City, MO (KTRS) — Federal labor officials say temporary farmworkers were kept in “inhumane” conditions and paid less than they were owed while working in southeast Missouri. The U.S. Labor Department recently issued a preliminary injunction against Florida-based Marin J Corp, responsible for overseeing 107 workers near the Missouri Bootheel town of Kennett. Marin…
Alton, IL (KTRS) A suspect is in custody in connection with a near fatal stabbing of a cab driver in Alton earlier this week. Fifty-four-year-old Arthur Smallwood was arrested on Thursday and charged with attempted first-degree murder. Police say the victim, who is a driver for Alton’s Best Cabs, was stabbed more than a dozen times…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Golfweek is reporting the PGA of America is trying to regain control of computer servers that have kept officials from accessing files for the PGA Championship. The magazine says on its website that PGA staff members discovered their systems had been compromised when attempts to access files generated a message that…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Today is the four-year anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. About one-hundred supporters gathered for a remembrance ceremony this morning outside of Canfield Green Apartments, the site where the 18-year-old died following a police confrontation. Mike Brown Sr. said he plans to ask Wesley Bell, the newly…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Three years after the Ferguson Commission’s landmark report, only five of the 47 signature priority recommendations have been implemented. That’s according to Forward Through Ferguson’s inaugural State of the Report, which was released Wednesday, the eve of the 4th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown during a police confrontation…
FARMINGTON, MO (KTRS) St. Francois County authorities say the Farmington couple charged with keeping four children behind plywood in makeshift rooms had ordered prison clothing for the kids. Police in Farmington had answered a call to a child abuse hotline at a home and found four children, aged 6 to 12, apparently being kept with no…
Godfrey, IL (KTRS) Ivanka Trump is touring the country in an effort to unite academic, business, and political leaders in a series of “Workforce Development” round-table discussions. She spoke this morning at Lewis and Clark Community College in Godfrey, Illinois. Mrs. Trump told the group, “One of the things we’re going to do through the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A seven-term prosecuting attorney in St. Louis County who gained national attention in his handling of the investigation of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson has lost a primary challenge to a black Ferguson councilman. The county’s unofficial results showed a 14-point victory for Wesley Bell over Bob…
By DAVID A. LIEB , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The steady march of new right-to-work laws in Republican-led states hit a wall in Missouri, where voters resoundingly rejected a measure that could have weakened union finances after national and local labor groups poured millions of dollars into the campaign against it. Missouri’s…