St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Dozens of schools are dismissing classes early on Friday in response to the winter weather. School Closings 02/15/2019 Apprende High School | CLOSING AT 12:00 PM Apprende Private School | CLOSING AT 12:00 PM Arcadia Valley R 2 | CLOSED B.W. Robinson State School | CLOSED Bismarck R 5 Schools…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis-area is bracing for more winter weather. A winter weather advisory is in effect from 9 a.m. until midnight. The National Weather Service is calling for 1 to 3 inches of snow. That weather is expected to move in around midday. MODOT crews have been busy pre-treating roads. MODOT officials…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A Federal Judge is not going to allow former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley to sue his accusers. Thursday, the judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by Stockley against the prosecutor who charged him and the internal affairs detective who built the case against him. Stockley was found not guilty in…
BARNHART, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man faces charges accusing him of binding a dog’s legs and mouth with tape and throwing the animal into a ditch, where it was found 12 hours later in bitter cold. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak on Thursday announced the arrest and charges against 39-year-old Paul Garcia of…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by a St. Louis police union that sought to block names of the more than two dozen officers placed on an “exclusion list” by the city’s top prosecutor over credibility concerns. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer issued the…
Bond County, MO (KTRS) Two people are dead after a multi-state police chase. Police say the pursuit began around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday after 39-year-old Leslie K. Austin allegedly kidnapped a woman and a juvenile in Jefferson City. The chase went into St. Louis and crossed over into Illinois. At some point, the woman and juvenile managed…
Washington, DC (KTRS) U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is introducing bipartisan legislation to increase the death benefits for families of fallen law enforcement officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. The First Responders Survivors Support Act aims to increase the Public Safety Officers’ death and disability benefit to $500,000, fix bureaucratic problems with…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Sen. Josh Hawley has been subpoenaed to answer questions about his handling of Missouri’s open records law while he was the state’s attorney general. The Cole County Circuit Court issued the subpoena Monday as part of a lawsuit against Gov. Mike Parson’s office. St. Louis attorney Elad Gross, a Democratic candidate…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County grand jury has returned a 17-count indictment against a man suspected of killing a woman and sexually assaulting two others inside a suburban St. Louis religious supply store. The indictment filed Wednesday mirrors charges prosecutors filed in November against Thomas Bruce…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Stray Rescue is holding a press conference Tuesday after a dog found freezing in the cold on Friday was euthanized on Monday. Faust, the 6-year-old dog named for the letter carrier who found her, was taken to Stray Rescue in a coma with a temperature too low to read, then transferred…