St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Three people are dead and two are injured following two separate shootings in St. Louis over the weekend. The latest shooting happenedSunday night when a man was fatally shot on Page and Union in north St. Louis. The name of the victim hasn’t been released. There’s no word of any arrests.…
HIGHLAND, Ill. (AP) – A roadway through a rural stretch of southern Illinois has been named for a 33-year-old Green Beret killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2008. On Saturday, friends and community members gathered at an American Legion post in Highland to dedicate the stretch of highway that was the final leg…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Researchers say an Illinois law that locks in tuition rates for in-state students appears to have the unintended effect of driving up tuition for out-of-state students and fees for all. The law, which took effect in 2004, guarantees that a student starting as a freshman at a state university will pay…
A 70-year-old woman is lucky to be alive after her vehicle was fired-bombed while she was driving. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that the woman was driving to church around 10:45 Sunday morning when three men pulled up alongside her in a Monte Carlo, with Illinois plates, near Riverview Boulevard and Orchid Avenue. That…
( KTRS ) Authorities have released the name of a young man fatally shot in the city of Kinloch. Police say 19 yr old Jorell Cleveland of Ferguson was killed Saturday afternoon near the area of Jefferson and Courtney Avenues. The shooting is under investigation by the St. Louis County Police Department Bureau of Crimes…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – While the University of Missouri is dealing with a sharp drop in enrollment this fall, many other four-year universities in the state reported an increase in the number of students. After protests disrupted the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus last fall, the incoming freshman class for this academic year shrank by…
