JEFFERON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are poised to relax the state’s gun laws and tighten its voting requirements as they consider overriding Gov. Jay Nixon’s vetoes. The Republican-led Legislature will convene Wednesday for a short session devoted to veto overrides. The top vetoed bills include a proposal to allow most people to carry…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A former St. Louis police sergeant has pleaded guilty to fraud for stealing more than $80,000 from the organization for black police officers that he once led. Darren Randal Wilson pleaded guilty to nine counts Tuesday in U.S. District Court. Sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of 12 to 18…
(KTRS) – Police hope that surveillance video will help them catch the man who left an explosive outside a Riverview Gardens school last week. There was a small explosion last Wednesday outside of Moline Elementary School, but it caused only minor damage. Police are working to determine what exploded in the bag. The video shows…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The Illinois governor is tossing in $100,000 of his own money to boost the campaign of Indiana’s Republican gubernatorial candidate even as the two states scuffle for jobs. The money Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner gave to Indiana Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb’s campaign is a small fraction of the $16 million that the…
(KTRS) – The third person shot during a home invasion in St. Charles County, has died. Police say that Danny Donovan died exactly five weeks after the shooting at his father’s home. The home invasion happened August 8 when a man came into the house armed with two handguns. Daniel Donovan and the suspect started…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The special election for Missouri’s 78th District race will go on as planned for Friday. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to allow a special election. A hearing was held on Monday in which incumbent Penny Hubbard challenged the ruling. Bruce Franks lost the August…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A woman is dead following a shooting in the Central West End. Police say the victim who was in her early sixties, was gunned down near Sarah and Olive streets around 11 p.m. Monday. She died shortly after being taken to the hospital. There’s no word of any arrests or a…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Grand jurors have charged a man with murder in the stabbing deaths of three people at a southern Illinois beauty salon more than a decade ago. The Belleville News Democrat reports one-time suspect 50-year-old Samuel L. Johnson of St. Louis was charged with first-degree murder in an indictment unsealed Monday. He…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – State and federal regulators say 32 disposal wells in northeastern Oklahoma must shut down because they are too near a newly discovered fault line that produced the state’s strongest earthquake on record. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission said Monday that 27 wells under its jurisdiction would cease operations, along with five wells…
Two Frontenac men are in police custody for allegedly raping a teen girl. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that the victim, believed to be at least 17, contacted police Sunday morning. She told them that the men, Alexander Doering and Jeremiah Horsfall-Steinbrenner, both 22 yrs old, lured her to a trailer under the false…