CHICAGO, IL (AP) — Illinois State Police will be out this week issuing tickets and handing out safety literature in a bid to bring down numbers of railroad-crossing deaths in the state. A greater emphasis on the problem in Illinois comes during U.S. Rail Safety Week this week. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that state police will work with local…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after a woman was found with suspected gunshot wounds inside of a crashed vehicle in north St. Louis. Police say the victim was discovered at just before 7:30 a.m. Sunday in the 4200 block of Evans. According to the investigation, it appeared that she had multiple gunshot wounds.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is dead after being shot in north St. Louis. Police say the victim was found shot to death at just before noon Sunday on Marcus and Ashland. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. This brings the St. Louis murder…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis police recruit is recovering after accidentally being shot during a dog attack. Police say the recruit was accompanying two officers and another recruit on a ride along late Saturday afternoon when they were called to a disturbance at a home in the 7700 block of Alaska Avenue in south…
St. Louis man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 2012 police chase that ended in a deadly crash in Hazelwood. Twenty seven-year-old Reno Witt Jr. was sentenced on Friday after being found guilty by a jury in June of second-degree murder. Authorities say Witt caused the crash that killed his passenger,…
CLAYTON, MO (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 2012 police chase that ended in a deadly crash in Hazelwood. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 27-year-old Reno Witt Jr. was sentenced Friday. He was found guilty by a jury in June of second-degree murder. Authorities say Witt…
DU QUOIN, IL (AP) — Officials say attendance at the 2018 Du Quoin State Fair in southern Illinois dropped by 8 percent from last year. Organizers say the 11-day fair attracted about 100,800 before it wrapped up on Labor Day. The attendance decline was about the same as last month’s Illinois State Fair in Springfield…
OMAHA, NE (AP) — The amount of water being released into the lower Missouri River will be temporarily reduced because of recent heavy rains in southeastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it is reducing the amount of water being released from the Fort Randall and Gavins Point dams…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — The University of Missouri says freshmen enrollment increased for this school year, but overall enrollment declined. The Columbia Missourian reports freshmen enrollment increased 13 percent from fall 2017 to 2018. The 4,673 freshmen enrolled for the fall was 539 more than in 2017. Total enrollment at MU dropped 3.3 percent, from 30,870 students…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — St. Louis’ land bank is facing pressure from city officials and residents to reduce its inventory of vacant properties as the agency struggles with staffing and limited funding. The Land Reutilization Authority owns about 12,000 parcels, which is almost half of St. Louis’ 25,000 vacant lots and buildings. The authority…