ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s health department director on Tuesday said he tracked the menstrual cycles of Planned Parenthood patients as part of an effort to identify what the agency says were “failed abortions” at a St. Louis clinic. Department of Health and Senior Services Director Randall Williams made the revelation during the second day…
Sauget, IL (KTRS) A boil order is in effect for parts of the metro-east. Illinois American water says a 20-inch water main broke on Monsanto Avenue in Sauget Thursday, and that repairs are being made. Impacted customers are advised to boil their water for at least 5 minutes before consumption. The water is okay for…
KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri taxpayers spent more than $200,000 in the months leading up to former Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation to defend his office’s use of a self-deleting text message app, according to a state audit issued Wednesday. In 2017, a lawsuit alleged Greitens’ office used the app Confide to avoid being subjected…
Missouri prison guards are criticizing the Department of Corrections director, who was photographed at a September golf fundraiser holding a beer while wearing a shirt with the department logo. Prison employee union chief Gary Gross says employees would face discipline if they were pictured doing the same thing in their uniforms. Corrections spokeswoman Karen Pojmann…
St. Louis Homicide detectives are working three homicides from Monday evening. The first homicide was in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood around 5 p.m. Police say a man was found shot to death in a field at Martin Luther King Drive and Hodiamont. The second murder was found just a couple blocks away in the 1400…
A new bar and restaurant measure was passed in St. Charles Missouri last night. St. Charles City Council voted in the bill that will have three main parts. First, a three-person Liquor Commission, comprised of the chief of police, the Finance Director and Community Development Director, who will oversee the St. Charles establishments. There will…
By MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer says he is providing “critical information” as part special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance and other charges…
(KTRS) St. Louis A young man was robbed and shot multiple times in St. Louis by two masked men. Metropolitan police say one mask was a “grandpa Halloween mask” with red eyes and red mouth. The 22-year-old man was shot several times after being robbed Tuesday night on St. Louis Avenue. The man was listed in…
By MARI YAMAGUCHI , Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a landslide Thursday, paving the way for up to three more years as the nation’s leader. The decisive victory may embolden Abe to pursue his long-sought revision to Japan’s U.S.-drafted pacifist…
A valet driver is run over and killed in a metro-east parking lot. Thirty-nine-year-old Kenya Randall was struck and killed while working at the popular Club-Da-Beano Monday night. East St. Louis Detective Lemar Martin says surveillance video shows the driver did brake but then kept going. Co-worker Earlest Johnson says Randall was well liked and…