COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A jury has recommended up to 28 years in prison for a Missouri man found guilty of killing his wife. News outlets report the jury returned the recommendation early Friday only hours after Joseph Elledge was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Mengqi Ji. The judge will make the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An eastern Missouri man has been charged with causing a deadly Interstate 70 crash as he sped and swerved across lanes of traffic while drunk. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 36-year-old Kevin Mills, of Imperial, was charged Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court with driving while intoxicated resulting in death…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of 10 states has filed a lawsuit challenging a new rule by President Joe Biden’s administration requiring millions of health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The suit filed Wednesday in a Missouri federal court follows similar ones filed by Republican-led states against Biden’s vaccine requirements for…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Council members are seeking answers over Spire Missouri’s recent email warning customers of potential natural gas outages this winter — outages the company said could occur if a pipeline is shut down. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that council members questioned Spire’s planning manager, David Yonce, during a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 13-year-old boy carjacking suspect is hospitalized in stable condition after being shot by the alleged victim of the crime. Police say the shooting happened Monday night. A 37-year-old woman was getting out of her car near her home when two males approached. The woman told police the 13-year-old pulled a…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of killing his wife and burying her body in a park has taken the stand to testify in his first-degree murder trial. Joseph Elledge is accused of killing his wife, 28-year-old Mengqi Ji, whom he reported missing in October 2019. Her remains were found in March in…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Officials say a man has died in a mobile home fire in St. Charles. Firefighters were called to the blaze around 3 p.m. Sunday after a neighbor spotted smoke coming from the home and called 911. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the back end of…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County man is charged with two separate killings, and police are trying to determine if he was involved in at least four other homicides in Missouri and Kansas. Perez Deshay Reed is suspected of killing a 16-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man in September in St. Louis County.…
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri girl is hospitalized and three households have been evacuated after a rare mercury spill. Jen Niswonger of Wentzville first took her four children to the doctor this summer when they all broke out in rashes. Her 11-year-old daughter didn’t get better. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that it…
LAKE SAINT LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — Some Missourians may be having a hard time finding dentists and other service providers who are vaccinated because employers have to balance protecting their employees’ health information against their customers’ need for transparency. Washington University law professor Pauline Kim says the political nature of the debate over COVID-19 vaccinations…