ST. LOUIS (AP) – A suburban St. Louis man has been ordered to spend the maximum of 20 years in federal prison for giving his son’s 17-year-old girlfriend the heroin that killed her. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis judge sentenced 57-year-old Jerry Harvey on Monday on a heroin-distribution charge. He pleaded…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An ad by a Missouri attorney general candidate that’s drawing criticism accuses fellow Republican contender Josh Hawley of working for terrorists. GOP Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s campaign last week announced the ad attacking University of Missouri School of Law associate professor Hawley. Schaefer’s latest ad cites Hawley’s work at the Becket…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A cloud of uncertainty is hanging over a proposed cigarette tax hike after a Missouri appeals court panel changed the wording that voters would see on the November ballot. The appeals panel ruled late last week that the initiative’s summary was insufficient, because it failed to say a new fee…
CHICAGO (AP) – Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys face a midnight deadline for motions regarding the sentence they’d like former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to receive when his case returns to court for a resentencing hearing next month. Both sides were given until midnight Monday to file their motions in anticipation of the scheduled Aug.…
Officer Flamion remains in critical but stable condition
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) An officer-involved shooting is being investigated in East St. Louis. Authorities say a man was firing shots in the 1600 block of Gaty Avenue at just after 6 a.m. Monday. The suspect was shot after he allegedly pointed his weapon at police. No one else was injured in this incident,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – For 50 years, an unsolved mystery in St. Louis centered around who piloted the small plane that flew through the legs of the newly-completed Gateway Arch in 1966. A suburban St. Louis woman says it was her father. The 630-foot tall monument was newly completed when, on June 22, 1966, a small…
( KTRS ) A new report says court fees and fines in Illinois have ballooned over the years because they’ve become bloated with surcharges to pay for programs and services. Sometimes the added surcharges fund things unrelated to a case, such as law libraries and zero-interest loans for fire departments to buy new trucks. The…
