Webster Groves, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing child. Police say 11-year-old Terrauna Childs ran away from the Great Circle Children’s Home in Webster Groves around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday. Terrauna is described as a black, female, 5-feet tall, weighing 90 pounds, with black hair worn in an afro style, and…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is siding with the state Ethics Commission after it charged a former state lawmaker nearly $230,000 in fees for campaign finance violations. Judges on Tuesday unanimously ruled that fees against former St. Louis Democratic Sen. Robin Wright-Jones were constitutional and within legal limits. Wright-Jones had argued…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The Guns ‘N Hoses Boxing Association announced a record donation of $700,000 to The BackStoppers, a nonprofit organization that assists families of first responders who die or suffer a catastrophic injury in the line of duty. The donation was made possible thanks to proceeds generated from the 31st annual Budweiser Guns ‘N Hoses…
St. Clair County, IL (KTRS) The Major Case Squad is investigating a murder in St. Clair County. Police say 19-year-old Cole Weirciszewski was shot late Monday afternoon at a home on Paulette Drive, just outside of Belleville. He died shortly after being taken to the hospital. If you have any information, you are asked to call…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing Spanish Lake man. Police say 59-year-old Edward Kinder went missing at just before 7 p.m. Monday. Kinder made suicidal comments before he left, according to investigators. Kinder, is described as a a white male, 5’9″ in height, weighing 200 lbs, with…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Three people are injured, one critically, after a police pursuit ended in a crash involving six vehicles in St. Louis. The chase began when officers from the North County Police Cooperative spotted a carjacking suspect around 1:45 p.m. Monday in Wellston. The pursuit went into St. Louis’ Central West End, ending…
UPDATE: Fox 2 reports the child died Monday morning. Barnhart, MO (KTRS) Investigators are searching for answers into why a Jefferson County mother killed herself after shooting her son. Police say 49-year-old Tara Kelleher shot her 11-year-old son at the family’s Barnhart home in the 7200 block of Valley Drive early Saturday morning before turning the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow universities designate full-time faculty as “campus protection officers” who can carry concealed weapons. Republican Rep. Dean Dohrman introduced the bill to the House Higher Education Committee Wednesday with hopes of college campus safety in an age of increasingly frequent mass shootings,…
Sullivan, MO (KTRS) Slick roads are to blame for a multi-vehicle accident in Franklin County that resulted in Interstate 44 to be shut down for several hours. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports the accident involved four tractor trailers along eastbound 44 near the 224 mile marker. It happened at just after 9 p.m. Saturday. One…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis bar owner faces second-degree murder and assault charges in a shooting that killed a teenager and injured the teen’s mother. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 37-year-old Larry Jackson is jailed on $250,000 bond. Jackson is accused of killing 18-year-old Antavion Wilson during a shootout on Feb. 2…