St Louis, MO. (KTRS) Police officers in St. Louis will soon be wearing body cameras. Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards told the city’s Board of Estimate and Apportionment on Wednesday that the police department expects to begin using body cameras by the end of November. St. Louis has been the site of several shootings involving…
Benton, IL (KTRS) An metro-east identity thief is going to prison. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, 37-year-old Tamecia Buckley of Cahokia was sentenced to 75 months Wednesday on 7 fraud counts and 5 counts of aggravated identity theft. She pleaded guilty back in July and has been in federal custody since August of last…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect is on the loose following an officer-involved shooting in north county. Just after 4 P.M. Tuesday, an officer with the Moline Acres Police Department was in the 9800 block of Monarch when he saw an individual known to be wanted for a violent felony. He approached and attempted to…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a woman killed at a Starbucks in Olivette on Oct. 3. Glenda Simmons was inside the Starbucks when a 78-year old Olivette man driving an Audi SUV crashed through the storefront. Simmons died later in the hospital. The suit alleges…
LAMAR, Mo. (AP) — A 39-year-old former student teacher in southwestern Missouri has been sentenced to four years in prison for sending nude photographs of herself to three 13-year-old male students back in 2017. The Joplin Globe reports that former at Lamar Middle School teacher Emily Edson was sentenced last week to four years for…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Homicide detectives are investigating after a man is found dead inside a stolen car in north city. Just before 5 P.M. Monday, officers responded to an “accident with injuries” call in the 3700 block of Finney, which is in the city’s Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood. Upon arrival they found a…
Chesterfield, MO (KTRS) A 20-year old Chesterfield man is charged in the death of an Urgent Care employee in west St. Louis County Sunday night. In a release, the Ballwin Police Department reported that Trenton Geiger was driving in the 25-hundred block of Clarkson Road when he lost control of his car and struck 25-year…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is hospitalized in critical condition following a shooting in the city’s Fox Park Neighborhood. It happened early Sunday morning in the 2800 block of Gravois in South St. Louis. That’s where officers responded to a call and found a 29-year-old man in the passenger seat of a vehicle, suffering…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force reports the area had a sobering week in the effort to stop the spread of the Corona- virus. At his Friday press conference Task Force Head Dr. Alex Garza addressed admissions data from the region’s hospitals. New hospital admissions increased from 37* yesterday to…
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Josh Hawley is working on a book about one of the Missouri Republican’s ongoing targets. Simon & Schuster announced Friday that Hawley’s “The Tyranny of Big Tech” will be released June 21. Hawley has frequently criticized Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants for everything from alleged anti-conservative bias to…