SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Failed efforts to authenticate Abraham Lincoln’s ownership of a stovepipe hat were kept secret for years by the nonprofit group that owns the hat. WBEZ Chicago reports that the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation sought national museum experts’ review in 2013 and an FBI DNA analysis in 2015 to prove Lincoln’s link to the…
St. Louis, MO (AP) — Police say a man charged in a deadly St. Louis salvage yard shooting told a detective he was “startled” when he opened fire. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 46-year-old Charles Lay is charged with involuntary manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm in the death of Lionel Anthony Brown. Officers…
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL (AP) — Prosecutors say a 31-year-old San Diego, California, woman who went by the online alias “The Drug Llama” faces federal charges in southern Illinois in a conspiracy that included the shipment of more than 50,000 fentanyl pills nationwide. The U.S. attorney’s office in southern Illinois said Tuesday that Melissa Scanlan used…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing Ferguson man. Police say 20-year-old Ryan Becker, who is mentally disabled, was last seen walking down an alley in the area of Walnut Grove Elementary School around 5 a.m. Wednesday. Ryan is described as white, weighing 165 pounds, with brown hair brown…
A valet driver is run over and killed in a metro-east parking lot. Thirty-nine-year-old Kenya Randall was struck and killed while working at the popular Club-Da-Beano Monday night. East St. Louis Detective Lemar Martin says surveillance video shows the driver did brake but then kept going. Co-worker Earlest Johnson says Randall was well liked and…
WARRENTON, Mo. (AP) — A Warrenton woman is accused of killing her 85-year-old mother. Fifty-one-year-old Marlene Wynn was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder. She is jailed on $500,000 cash-only bond. The name of the woman who was killed has not been released. Warrenton police say officers were called to Wynn’s home around 11 a.m. Monday…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A man already imprisoned for armed robbery has been charged in a 1999 murder in St. Louis. Thirty-nine-year-old Deangelo Thomas was charged Monday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 30-year-old Floyd Epps. Epps was found shot to death at a St. Louis park in February…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The Illinois State Fair lost nearly $210,000 on its Grandstand concerts in Springfield last month after seeing record ticket sales a year ago. Figures released by fair officials show it took a big hit over country star Thomas Rhett’s weather-canceled show. The State Journal-Register reports the fair would’ve lost only about $75,000 loss…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Local McDonald’s workers are striking. Tuesday, out-of-town activists and union workers organized a group of local employees in a walk-out style protest of McDonald’s alleged failure to address sexual impropriety and low wages. People gathered outside the McDonald’s on St. Charles Rock Road in St. John during the busy lunch rush. A…
Manchester, MO (KTRS) One person is recovering after a house fire in west county. Firefighters were called to a burning home off of Carman Road near Highway 141 at around 11:45 p.m. Monday. One of the people inside the home suffered burns and was taken to the hospital. The extent of the victim’s injuries hasn’t been…