JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Supporters of a proposal to allow medical marijuana in Missouri say thousands of signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot were wrongly tossed out. A lawyer for the group New Approach Missouri told a circuit judge Monday that enough registered voters signed a petition to get the measure…
Chesterfield, MO (KTRS) A pilot is hospitalized after his plane crashed in Chesterfield. Authorities say the small plane went down near Spirit of St. Louis Airport around 8 p.m. Sunday. Rescue crews searched in the dark for about two hours before finding the downed plane. The pilot was the only one on board. There’s no…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information in the murder of a St. Louis cab driver. Last Wednesday, 38-year-old Timothy Grace was found shot to death inside of his cab in the Central West End. Anyone with any information should contact CrimeStoppers. Investigators believe robbery was the…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois schools are now required to limit long-term suspensions and expulsions under a new law that also eliminates the use of zero-tolerance policies used to severely punish students for certain offenses. The law that took effect last week is designed to reduce the number of days students are pulled from classrooms…
MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) – Five years after St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson launched an effort to increase enrollment at the region’s Catholic schools, enrollment continues to decline. That led to an announcement Friday that John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester will close at the end of this year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
( KTRS ) Illinois State Fair officials say numbers this year were down from the last. A report shows that attendance, for the fair that ran from Aug 11th to the 21st, was around 357,000. Heavy rains and high temps are believed to be the reason numbers weren’t as high as last years. During the…
WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are searching for two inmates who escaped from a south-central Missouri jail. The Springfield News-Leader reports the two men escaped from the Pulaski County jail early Sunday. Sheriff Ron Long said in a release that the inmates requested a medical check, then stole the jailer’s keys and fled. The jailer was…
( KTRS ) Police in Edwardsville, Illinois are looking for a man who, they believe, kidnapped his 13-year-old stepdaughter and her new born son. 39-year-old Christopher Derleth, could possibly be heading towards West Virginia on eastbound Interstate 64. Police also think that his stepdaughter, 13-year-old Katherine Elizabeth, has her son with her as well. He…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A funeral was held over the weekend for a murdered Ferguson actitivist. Mourners gathered to remember Darren Seals, Jr. at Greater St. Mark Family Church in north county on Saturday. Seals was found shot to death in a burned out car near Riverview High School on September 6th. So far no…
