( KTRS ) Authorities in Dent County are looking for a missing 13 yr old girl. Sheriff’s say that 13 yr old Harley Hopper hasn’t be seen, or heard from since last Thursday when she left her home in Salem MO, in the early hours of the morning. She is described as a white female,…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 58-year-old man caught hauling hundreds of pounds of marijuana through southwest Missouri faces about four months in prison. Ashot Grigoryan entered a modified Alford plea to drug possession with intent to distribute after authorities found about 800 pounds (360 kilograms) of marijuana in his truck in 2015. An Alford plea…
( KTRS ) Authorities report that a missing teen girl, and her new born son, have been found safe in West Virginia. 13 yr old Katherine Derleth, and her infant son, went missing last Sunday. Police believed that they had been taken by the girls step-father, 39 yr old Christopher Derleth, and could be headed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has issued minimum standards for municipal courts in response to accusations that courts in the St. Louis area routinely violate the rights of the poor. Some have decried the practice of holding defendants in jail who aren’t able to pay fines or bail and sometimes have to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The operator of a suburban St. Louis landfill that is the source of a strong odor due to an underground fire has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuits filed by nearly three dozen nearby residents. Bridgeton Landfill LLC announced the settlement Friday with 34 residents. Their lawsuits claimed that they…
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Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The Missouri Supreme Court is setting new minimum standards for municipal courts in response to accusations that courts in the St. Louis area routinely violate the rights of the poor. Chief Justice Patricia Breckenridge spoke of these new standards on Thursday at the joint annual meeting of the Missouri Bar Association…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect is being sought after an SUV was stolen with a child inside at a north St. Louis gas station. Police say the two-month-old boy was left in the vehicle while his mother went into the gas station on Goodfellow Boulevard and Natural Bridge Thursday afternoon. That’s when a male…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, who is also the Democratic nominee running for the U.S. Senate, is calling on the Missouri Legislature to pass a law allowing medical marijuana. Kander on Thursday came out in support of medical marijuana legislation in a statement through the secretary of state’s office, not…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned a law requiring six-member juries in civil trials. The court ruled 5-0 on Thursday that the law is unconstitutional. Chief Justice Rita Garman determined in the court’s opinion that the Illinois Constitution does not allow the Legislature to alter the size of civil juries from…