ST. LOUIS (AP) — The mother of a former St. Louis police chief is accused in a federal indictment of embezzling millions of dollars from a Missouri real estate company. A grand jury has indicted Carol Dotson with one count of wire fraud that alleges she bilked an Olivette real estate business between July 2003…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri police officer slain during a traffic stop was eulogized Saturday as an optimistic man who always prized law enforcement, with the state’s governor pressing mourners to appreciate the perils of police in a culture “too quick to condemn” them. “My brother’s dream job was being a police officer,”…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Just days before the school bell’s ring, the Democratic-controlled Illinois Legislature is grappling with a Republican governor over how to fix the biggest gap in the U.S. between a state’s richest schools and its poorest. School funding is in limbo after Gov. Bruce Rauner used his veto powers this month to…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge entered a not guilty plea Friday for the man accused in the killing of a western Missouri police officer during a traffic stop. Ian McCarthy, 39, of Clinton appeared via video at the Henry County Courthouse to answer charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Plans to renovate the Scottrade Center with $64 million in public funding are headed for court … now that critics have sued to block the funding on the basis it’s unconstitutional. The lawsuit’s backers include former state representative Jeanette Oxford and 20th Ward Alderwoman Cara Spencer. Spencer says the agreement violates the state…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The Rally Cat has been found, safe and sound and resting with the St. Louis Feral Cat Outreach, where volunteers are treating the cat and helping it recover before preparing it for adoption. Board Member Savannah Rigley says the agency jumped into action as soon as it heard the cat was on the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The famed Rally Cat may be have been found. St. Louis Feral Cat Outreach reports that a cat bearing a strong resemblance to Rally Cat was caught in a trap at the city garden last night. Efforts are being made to determine if this is the real Rally Cat. With the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Three children are dead and two others are hospitalized following a roll over crash near downtown St. Louis. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that the driver, 23-year-old Eric Williams, was driving eastbound on I-70 onto the Tucker exit ramp when he lost control of the vehicle. It went off the ramp…