By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A girl believed to be 12 years old opened fire Thursday in a middle school classroom, critically wounding one classmate and injuring three others, authorities said. Police arrested the girl and recovered a gun after the shooting that happened just before 9 a.m. at Salvador B.…
Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to clean up a St. Louis area landfill where Cold War-era nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago by partially excavating it. The EPA said Thursday that the plan calls for removing the majority of radioactive contamination that poses a health…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A shooting involving an off-duty Velda City police officer in south St. Louis is being investigated. Authorities say the officer shot a man late Wednesday night outside of a bar at Spring Avenue and Potomac Street. The man was reportedly armed with a knife. Fox 2 News reports the shooting stemmed from…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing north county teen. Police say 15-year-old Elijah Carter left a note stating he was having suicidal thoughts before leaving his home on 11235 Laporte Lane around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elijah Carter is described as a black male,5 feet 3 inches in…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens’ attorneys say ordering the governor and his staff to stop using an app that erases text messages would violate free speech rights. The Kansas City Star has reported that Greitens and some of his staff use a Confide app that deletes text messages and prevents them from…
EDWARDSVILLE, IL (KTRS) Edwardsville Police say they found “Mabel,” the mannequin which had been reported stolen from the Edwardsville Robert Stille Township Park, during the A-7 Corsair aircraft renovation this past summer. Police received a tip Jan. 24 of her whereabouts. A subsequent investigation was conducted and led to the location of “Mabel” at an Edwardsville…
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — Another wave of victims confronted Larry Nassar on Wednesday, this time about sexual abuse at an elite Michigan gymnastics club where young athletes felt they had to use the disgraced doctor’s services and could not question the adults who ran the facility. The judge presiding over the…
By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town on Wednesday. No lawmakers or aides were reported injured, but the White House said one person was killed and another…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A comprehensive audit will be conducted on the City of St. Louis. State Auditor Nicole Galloway made that announcement during a press conference.in downtown St. Louis on Wednesday. “My audit will be a thorough and independent review of how taxpayer dollars are managed and will hold government accountable to taxpayers,” Galloway…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police now know the identity of the man whose burned remains were found in a north St. Louis trash bin. Dental records were used to identified the victim as 29-year-old Breyon Jamaul Robinson of Spanish Lake. He was reported missing Saturday, one day after his remains were found in a near Fairground…