ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge dismissed murder charges against two women because of delays by prosecutors in providing reports to their defense attorneys. The judge dismissed murder and robbery charges Wednesday against 32-year-old Rachel Nixon, of Webster Groves, and 41-year-old Karen Ann Quinn, of St. Louis. They were among four people charged…
FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — A 54-year-old St. Louis County man who shot his supervisor after being fired from a child care center has been sentenced to life in prison. Christopher Owens of Florissant was sentenced Wednesday in the January 2021 death of 60-year-old Brantley Tate at Marygrove Child Center in Florissant. Owens pleaded guilty to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has sentenced two men and a woman from Missouri to several weeks in jail for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg sentenced Emily Hernandez, of Sullivan,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has reached an agreement with the Missouri Office of Disciplinary Counsel in which she acknowledges that she made mistakes in her handling of the prosecution of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens but won’t face any severe penalties for those mistakes. The “joint stipulation” agreement was…
PUXICO, Mo. (AP) — Two weak earthquakes rumbled in southeast Missouri over the weekend. Television station KFVS reports that the U.S. Geological Survey recorded both earthquakes Sunday evening near Puxico in rural Wayne County, just north of the Missouri Bootheel. The survey says the first was about 7 miles northwest of Puxico and registered a…
NORTHWOODS, Mo. (AP) — Police northwest of St. Louis are investigating the deaths of two men found less than a day apart as a murder-suicide. St. Louis County police say in a news release that officers were called late Wednesday night to a home in Northwoods to check on the well-being of a person. St.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a 10-year-old boy fatally shot his 12-year-old brother as the two played with a gun they found inside a St. Louis home. Television station KMOV reports that the shooting happened Tuesday night in a north St. Louis neighborhood. Police said the boys were with a parent who was getting…
UNION, Mo. (AP) — A woman photographed carrying a wooden name plate torn from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection faces felony charges for allegedly driving drunk and causing a fatal wreck in Missouri. Emily Hernandez of Sullivan, Missouri, is charged with driving while intoxicated involving the death of…
Police say two victims aged 12 and 13 have been found shot to death inside a downtown St. Louis apartment at 10th and Spruce Streets in what police suspect is a murder/suicide. KSDK reports that St. Louis Metropolitan Police were called to the apartment at around 2 a.m. this morning and found the male and…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The investigator who played a key role in former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ resignation in 2018 has pleaded guilty to evidence tampering. Private investigator William Tisaby entered the plea Wedesday on the misdemeanor charge. Prosecutors dropped seven felony counts including perjury. Jury selection was set to start Thursday. Tisaby was indicted…