St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A suspect is dead following a break in at a north county home. Police say a man broke into a residence near Jennings Station Road and West Florissant around 12:30 a.m. Monday. That’s when an altercation occurred between the suspect and the homeowner. The suspect was stabbed to death by the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A former longtime head of St. Louis’ Teamsters union during the 1980s has died. Robert “Bobby” Sansone’s family tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Sansone died Friday of respiratory failure. He was 78. Sansone served for a dozen years as president of the Teamsters’ Joint Council 13, which represented St. Louis’ 35,000…
( KTRS ) Commuters that drive eastbound I-70 near I-170, may want to give yourself some extra time. MODOT Crews will be closing one lane, to make pavement repairs, on eastbound I-70 at I-170 from 9 a.m. Monday morning, to 5 a.m. Tuesday. The lane will close again on Tuesday from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens often recounts how he volunteered in Bosnia helping children separated from their families by a horrific ethnic war. But the refugee camps he visited as a college student in summer 1994 actually were in neighboring Croatia. The discrepancy is notable because Greitens’ campaign is…
( KTRS ) Illinois has become the latest state to grant legal protections to nannies, house keepers and in-home caregivers with a domestic workers “bill of rights” Gov. Bruce Rauner approved the law earlier this month. The new Illinois rules extend sexual harassment protection, minimum-wage pay and a guaranteed one day off in a seven-day…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois State Police say a 17-year-old girl has been arrested in the weekend stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at the Illinois State Fair. A statement from the agency says the stabbing occurred Saturday night in the carnival area of the fair in Springfield. The brief statement says the 16-year-old girl was expected…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker is resigning to avoid a new waiting period for legislators to become lobbyists. Hartville Republican Rep. Tony Dugger stepped down Friday. In an interview with The Associated Press, he cited a law set to take effect Aug. 28 that will require lawmakers to wait six months after…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Ethics Commission says it has found no evidence that Republican state Sen. Kurt Schaefer improperly used his authority over state spending in an effort to keep an opponent out of the Republican primary for attorney general. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the commission told Schaefer about the…
