St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two firefighters are okay after being rescued from a burning home in south St. Louis. Firefighters were called to a burning home on Wherry Avenue at Eichelberger around 7 a.m. Thursday. Thats when authorities say the firefighters fell into the basement after a stairwell collapsed. Both escaped serious injury from the…
( KTRS ) A man shot while at a concert has died from his injuries. On October 16th North County police were called to “The Ambassador” for a reported shooting, on arrival officers found three victims. One victim, 34 year-old John Trevillion, had been shot multiple times in the Torso. He was transported in critical…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has renewed his emphasis on finding waste in taxpayer-funded health care programs. Rauner appeared Wednesday at a Chicago news conference to release a report from a task force he created to study the matter. Established in April, the group has studied the best practices of agency fraud…
( KTRS) The man accused of murdering Officer Blake Snyder has pleaded “not guilty”. 18 yr old Trenton Forster gave the plea Wednesday afternoon in his first court appearance. He has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting of 33-year-old officer Snyder. Officer Snyder and his partner were responding…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A recently found recording shows Democratic attorney general candidate Teresa Hensley criticizing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster. Former Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley said in a Wednesday statement that the video was taken during a 2006 debate after she succeeded Koster as prosecutor. In the video, Hensley says the prosecutor’s office…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri has received an $8 million gift for its proposed football facility project at Memorial Stadium. The university’s athletic department said Wednesday the donor wished to remain anonymous. Missouri has raised about $67 million of the estimated $75 million needed for the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex near the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal appeals court has ordered a judge to revisit her refusal to throw out a $100 million lawsuit by a man whose conviction in a Missouri sports editor’s death was overturned after his nearly a decade in prison. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided Wednesday with six Columbia…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a St. Louis attorney accused of misusing $2,500 of his client’s money. Sean E. Bryant lost his license Tuesday. Authorities say Bryant was representing a man in 2015 who was jailed in St. Louis County for probation violation in a case involving late child-support payments.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Democratic Party chairman is claiming that Republican Eric Greitens broke campaign finance laws by using a list of charity donors to raise money in his campaign for governor. Roy Temple filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against Greitens, a former Navy SEAL officer who founded a veterans’ charity called…
Milan, MO (KTRS) Six horses and two mules are being cared for by the Humane Society of Missouri after being rescued from a property in north central Missouri on Monday. Officials with the Humane Society say the animals were living on one acre of land barren of all forage at the property in Milan in…