CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – A suspect in the 2017 kidnapping and slaying of a University of Illinois scholar from China wants to know if President Donald Trump spoke to Chinese officials about the case when he visited China in November. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that prosecutors revealed in a federal-court filing Friday that Brendt Christensen’s…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing St. Louis County man. Police say 60-year-old Osman Francis Ingraham Jr. was last seen walking away from his residence at 7 a.m. on Friday. Ingraham suffers from bi-Polar disorder and does not have access to his medication. He is described as white,…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An ATF agent is cleared by a jury in a civil suit related to a 2012 shooting. According to a statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, on August 29th, 2012, Special Agent Bernard Hansen was part of an Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Special Response Team undercover operation which was targeting…
Collinsville, IL (KTRS) A man is dead following a metro-east car crash Friday. According to the Illinois State Police, a 76-year-old Hamel, IL man was traveling south in a Chevy Malibu on Interstate 55 at mile-marker 23 near Edwardsville when he lost control, striking the squad car of an Illinois State Trooper. The trooper was…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis County man is in jail following a shooting over the weekend. According to county police, 18-year-old Ronnie Williams of the 200 block of Suburban Avenue in Ferguson was allegedly playing with a gun while sitting in the backseat of a vehicle early Saturday morning. The gun went off,…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana family that lost nine relatives in the sinking of a duck boat on a Missouri lake was held up as an inspiration Saturday as hundreds of people gathered in their memory. Gov. Eric Holcomb and Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett were among those at Eastern Star Church for the funeral of…
PLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Louisiana man who raped a young Missouri girl beginning when she was 5 has been sentenced to 260 years in prison. Platte County prosecutor Eric Zahnd announced 49-year-old Robert McDonald, of Coushatta, Louisiana, was sentenced Thursday. He was found guilty in May of 10 felony sex crimes. Zahnd said…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A father and three children who were among nine members of a close-knit Indiana family killed in a tourist boat accident were remembered Friday during a nearly three-hour service attended by hundreds who showed up to support their surviving relatives. Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, first lady Janet Holcomb and U.S. Rep. Andre…
BRANSON, MO (AP) The National Transportation Safety Board Friday released information from recorders on board the tourist boat that sank in a storm near Branson, Missouri, last week. The recordings from the video system on board the duck boat show Table Rock Lake was calm when the boat entered the lake around 6:55 p.m. the night…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana family that lost nine relatives when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake is preparing to say goodbye to four of those loved ones. Friday’s funeral services at Grace Apostolic Church in Indianapolis will honor the husband and three children of Tia Coleman. The services for 40-year-old Glenn Coleman,…