Champaign, IL (AP) Attorneys for a man accused of abducting and killing a University of Illinois scholar from China are asking for more time to prepare his defense. Former graduate student Brendt Christensen is charged in the June kidnapping and death of Yingying Zhang. His trial is scheduled for February Christensen’s public defenders have asked…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect is still being sought in connection with a double murder in south St. Louis. Police say 27-year-old Megan Nieder and 40-year-old Joseph Finger were fatally shot about 1 a.m. Tuesday in the 200 block of Bellerive. An unknown suspect was seen leaving the area on foot. A motorcycle which had been…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones is expressing opposition to a proposed half-cent sales tax increase that would be used to give police officers a raise, calling the proposal “tone-deaf.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Jones on Tuesday joined activists and advocacy organization in denouncing Proposition P, which will be decided…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Capitol has been evacuated following a small furnace fire shortly before lawmakers were expected to gather for a veto session. Springfield Fire Chief Robert “Barry” Helmerichs says the first floor fire was put out Tuesday with an extinguisher and the building was evacuated as a precaution. He says people…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count continues to climb. This comes after a man and woman were fatally shot while on a motorcycle at Minnesota and Bellerive around 1 a.m. Tuesday. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The names of the victims hasn’t been released. These latest killings bring…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory has been canceled for a missing west county man. The Missouri Highway Patrol says the body of 69-year-old Timothy Conrad has been found. Conrad left his Wildwood residence at around 8 p.m. Monday. He was seen a couple of hours later walking with a cane from a CVS…
(Oxford, Nebraska)-AP/KTRS A armed St. Charles man is arrested on board an Amtrak train bound for St. Louis. It happened on an eastbound California Zephyr train with about 175 people aboard passing near Oxford, Nebraska. Authorities say 25-year-old Taylor M. Wilson of St. Charles managed to get into an Amtrak locomotive and pull the train’s…
Clayton, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis area man has been found guilty in the Craigslist killing of an SIUE student. On Monday, a St. Louis County jury found 27-year-old Michael Gordon guilty of first-degree murder in the 2015 shooting death of 19-year-old Taylor Clark. Prosecutors say Clark was was trying to sell a sports car…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Voters in St. Louis will soon be asked to weigh in on a half-cent sales tax increase that would be used to give officers a raise. The timing of the Nov. 7 special election could make the vote’s passage a challenge as St. Louis police face criticism and lawsuits over its…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A report obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch offers insight into why the city’s Civil Service Commission reinstated a fired police captain who altered a police report. Ryan Cousins, who is black, alleged in a lawsuit that race played a role in his 2016 firing. The commission ruled last month that…