JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are threatening to make “painful cuts” to a state department’s funding for refusing to release information about a virus that killed a state employee last year. Republican Rep. Justin Alferman first proposed Wednesday at a House budget committee hearing a 10 percent budget reduction for administrative staff at…
IMPERIAL, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating the death of a woman whose burned body was found just off a road in Jefferson County. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the badly burned body was found Friday afternoon in Imperial, on a patch of gravel just off Sulphur Springs Road. Imperial is about 25 miles…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say two men have been found dead inside a St. Louis home with gunshot wounds to their head. Police say the men were found Friday night in the home of the Vandeventer neighborhood. Police say both men are in their 40s, but did not give their names or other details…
O’Fallon, MO (KTRS) The search for a missing O’Fallon man is over after he is found dead on Friday. The family made the announcement on the Find Adam Tumbrink Facebook page: With great sadness, the Tumbrink Family announce the loss of Adam Tumbrink. At this time, we ask for complete privacy and respect for the…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The ex-husband of a woman who had an extramarital affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens testified for an hour and a half Friday before a House committee doing its own investigation into the indicted governor, the man’s lawyer said. Attorney Al Watkins told…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri police officer who was killed in a shooting that wounded two other officers will be buried next week. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a tweet that the services for Clinton Officer Christopher Ryan Morton will start at 11 a.m. Monday at the Benson Convention Center in…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect is being sought in connection with a deadly hit and run in north St. Louis. Police have identified the victim as Dennis White, 55, of the 1500 block of Sullivan. He was struck while walking near Florissant and Sullivan just before just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday. White was taken to…
O’Fallon, MO (KTRS) The search is on after the mysterious disappearance of a father from St. Charles County. Police say 39-year-old Adam Tumbrink of O’Fallon hasn’t been seen since Tuesday. His vehicle was found in a parking lot on Highway K near I-64 on Thursday, with his cellphone inside. Anyone with any information is urged to…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A dying Missouri officer said over the police radio that he had been shot multiple times and didn’t think he could make it through the window of a home from which two other wounded officers managed to escape. Clinton Officer Christopher Ryan Morton is heard saying “I don’t know if…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Officials with the St. Louis say Holly, a beloved 19-year-old female chimpanzee at the Zoo, has died. She was humanely euthanized on Wednesday, March 7, due to advanced liver cancer. Blood work, radiographs and an ultrasound exam performed the previous day had suggested the presence of tumors affecting the function of her…