Hazelwood, MO (KTRS) Looking for something to do this Memorial Day weekend? A new entertainment option is now available for families throughout the region. Thursday night, a new drive-in concert and movie venue debuted in the parking lot of the former St. Louis Outlet Mall in Hazelwood. For the next 10 nights, the new POWERplex…
(KTRS) A St. Louis County man has been charged with first degree murder after finding another man in the bed of his child’s mother. 25-year old Damion Thomas of the 10-thousand block of Ewell Drive was arrested Wednesday for the Tuesday night murder of 27-year old Tyree Matthews. According to the police report, after arriving…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In a year when many states are prohibiting in-person graduation ceremonies due to the coronavirus, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is not only allowing them, but will speak at one. The Republican governor has a special bond with the indoor ceremony Thursday night at Sparta High School in southwestern Missouri: His granddaughter…
O’Fallon, MO (AP) — St. Louis County’s prosecutor has launched an investigation after video showed white police officers forcefully arresting a 68-year-old black woman and her 43-year-old son inside a Sam’s Club store. The announcement Wednesday by prosecutor Wesley Bell came two days after Marvia Gray sued the city of Des Peres, Missouri, and four…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-area kids and families bored at home during the corona-virus shutdown will start to see new options open up next month, when the St. Louis Zoo, summer camps and swimming pools all are expected to reopen. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page announced Wednesday that summer camps will likely be…
Bonne Terre, MO (AP) A Missouri man is put to death for fatally stabbing an 81-year-old woman nearly three decades ago, in the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton died via lethal injection yesterday. Barton had long maintained he was innocent of killing Gladys Kuehler, and his case was tied…
(KTRS) St. Louis County Police arrested a 48-year-old man Friday in connection with a January shooting that left one woman dead and another seriously injured. Prosecutors have charged Leron Harris with first-degree murder, robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm, and four counts of armed criminal action. Officers responded to a call at an apartment complex…
Washington D.C. (KTRS) U.S. Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley is calling on the United States Coast Guard to adopt NTSB recommendations following the duck boat tragedy at Table Rock Lake. In a letter sent to Admiral Karl Schultz, Hawley urged the adoption of recommendations issued in last month’s report on the 2018 tragedy. In the…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit accuses four white suburban St. Louis police officers of brutalizing a 68-year-old black woman and her adult son after wrongly accusing them of stealing a television. Marvia Gray alleges she suffered serious injuries while being arrested at a Sam’s Club store in Des Peres, Missouri, on March 23. The…
Belleville, IL (KTRS) Police in the metro-east need your help finding a missing Belleville girl. In a release, the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department says 14-year-old Mya Reagan is believed to have run away. She is described as an African-American girl, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 165 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She…