JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway and her husband, Jon, are welcoming a third son. Galloway announced in a news release Sunday that Joseph Nickels Galloway was born Friday afternoon. She says her new son is “beautiful, healthy and loud.” And her two sons, William and Benjamin, are already proud big…
( KTRS ) A fire forced some residents out of their apartments at a retirement village Sunday night. The fire, at the Friendship Village retirement community in Chesterfield, was called in around 9:30 pm last night. Fire crews were able to douse the flames and say they believe the fire was started by a ventilation…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a motorist died when he was struck and killed after he left his vehicle on Interstate 70 in St. Louis. The patrol says 45-year-old Damon Sleet, of St. Louis, died at the scene early Sunday. Sleet got out of his 1995 Chevrolet Silverado after it…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal judge has ordered Michael Brown’s parents to turn over his education records and certain medical documents as part of their wrongful-death lawsuit over the unarmed, black 18-year-old’s fatal 2014 police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber’s order Wednesday also requires Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A school district that includes students from Ferguson, Missouri, will continue its long-held method of electing board members at large in April, despite a lawsuit claiming the process is racially biased. The lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed in 2014 on behalf of the Missouri NAACP seeks a process…
(KTRS) – Flu cases among kids are on the rise in the metro area. Fox 2 reports that doctors at St. Louis Children’s Hospital say there has been spike in kids coming to the Emergency Room with flu-like symptoms. Some doctors report flu cases have doubled in recent weeks and it could get even worse…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has granted more pardons than any other Missouri governor in the past 30 years. The Democrat’s eight years as governor will come to an end Monday when he is succeeded by Republican Gov.-elect Eric Greitens. So far, Nixon has granted 88 pardons and three commutations that…
Poplar Bluff, MO (KTRS) Tainted heroin in Poplar Bluff may be linked to St. Louis. Police in Poplar Bluff are concerned that tainted heroin, possibly laced with fentanyl, is on the streets of the southeast Missouri town. This is in response to one death and five overdose calls in recent days. Police Chief Danny Whiteley…
