By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is expected to ask a judge to move up his criminal trial to start in two weeks, more than a month earlier than scheduled. Attorneys for the Republican governor at a St. Louis Circuit Court hearing Monday also said they anticipate asking for…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Police have been busy over the weekend after multiple shootings. Police say a 21-year-old woman was driving when she was grazed by a bullet on Kingshighway and Natural Bridge in north St. Louis around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The victim suffered minor injuries. Around 10:30 p.m., a man and a…
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) A man is dead after being hit by a MetroLink train in East St. Louis. Authorities say the victim was walking on the tracks just east of the Fairview Heights station off North 94th Street when he was struck by a westbound train at just before 8 p.m. Saturday. The…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson voters will decide next month whether to raise property taxes to continue funding programs at the city’s small library downtown. Prior to 2014, the Ferguson Municipal Public Library had few offerings. Then, national attention turned to the city after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Federal and state officials are scheduled to conduct damage assessments in three Illinois counties after flooding damaged or destroyed more than 120 homes last month. Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office said Friday that teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Illinois Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Small Business Administration would start…
ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KTRS) Charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and armed criminal action have been filed against Phillip Stroisch, the Overland man who was also charged last week with shooting into a Chesterfield home and injuring a couple. The St. Louis County prosecutor’s office lists a half-dozen charges of sodomy among the 21 charges, which include…
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) — A telephone company says its database did not provide the wrong Missouri address and phone number to police dispatchers leading to the shooting of three officers, one fatally. Police were alerted March 6 about a 911 call in which two women could be heard arguing but made no comment to dispatchers.…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued fire warnings for six states in the nation’s midsection. The Red Flag warnings issued Friday include most of Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle, southern Kansas, northeastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado and southeastern Missouri. Oklahoma Forestry Services has already requested and received firefighters and equipment from Alabama,…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after a decomposed body was found in a vacant home in north St. Louis. Investigators say the discovery was made late Thursday afternoon in the 4200 block of San Francisco. There’s no word on the victim’s identity or a cause of death. Anyone with any information should call St.…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Missouri lawmakers on Thursday raised concerns that Republican Gov. Eric Greitens now has the power to appoint new members to a state ethics panel that’s currently reviewing a complaint against him. The six-member Missouri Ethics Commission will lack a quorum after Thursday, when three members’…