Two people are charged in the death of a robbery accomplice who was killed by the intended victim in St. Charles. 29-year-old Michael Leslie and 21-year-old Autumn Nuspl, both of Overland, are jailed on $250,000 cash-only bail. They are charged with second-degree murder and other charges in the death of 31-year-old Brady David Wood of…
GRANITE CITY, IL (AP) — Two assistant high school principals in southwestern Illinois will receive $600,000 in back pay to settle a federal lawsuit over sex-based pay discrimination. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Granite City School District 9 denies the discrimination charge but agreed to the payout to Nikki Petrillo and Stacie Miller. Both alleged that for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is up and working as she recuperates from cancer surgery. A spokeswoman for the court, Kathy Arberg, also says that Ginsburg remained in New York at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Sunday. No information has been released on when Ginsburg might return home. Ginsburg underwent…
TANJUNG LESUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Doctors worked to save injured victims while hundreds of military and volunteers scoured debris-strewn beaches in search of survivors Monday after a deadly tsunami gushed ashore without warning on Indonesian islands, killing more than 280 people on a busy holiday weekend. The waves that swept terrified locals and tourists into…
ST. CHARLES, MO (AP) — Police say they are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in downtown St. Charles as a homicide. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the man was found Friday night in a popular tourist area near the riverfront. He was later identified as 31-year-old Bradley David Wood, of O’Fallon, Missouri.…
By DAVID A. LIEB , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When then-Missouri state Sen. Mike Parson didn’t agree with a voter-approved law imposing tough regulations on dog breeders, he led a legislative effort to repeal the measure and replace it with a tamer version. Now eight years later as governor, Parson believes a…
By SONNY FIGUEROA , Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The body of a 7-year-old girl who died while in custody of the U.S. Border Patrol arrived in her native Guatemala on Sunday and was to be driven hours into the countryside and handed over to family members for a last goodbye. A white coffin…
TAYLORVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Survivors of a rare December tornado that injured more than two dozen people in a central Illinois city say that two weeks after the storm, they are struggling but grateful for the kindness they’ve been shown in the aftermath. More than 25 people were injured in Taylorville— population 11,000, reported The…
By DAN ELLIOTT , Associated Press DENVER (AP) — The government may be partially shut down, but that won’t stop hundreds of volunteers dressed in Christmas hats and military uniforms Monday from taking calls from children around the world who want to know when Santa will be coming. The military says the NORAD Tracks Santa…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) – The partial federal government shutdown is impacting the St. Louis area The Gateway Arch and the Old Courthouse are closed due to the shutdown. The partial shutdown will also have an impact on farmers, as the USDA will close local and state farm service centers across the United States.