EDWARDSVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A woman convicted of fatally stabbing another woman in Granite City in 2013 has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/28ZXpRu ) reports Circuit Judge Kyle Napp sentenced 21-year-old Breanna Maldonado after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder in March. Authorities say Maldonado and…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A women’s basketball player is dropping her lawsuit against Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, but will pursue a complaint with the Missouri Commission on Human Rights. Brittany Jackson filed suit earlier this month, saying she was wrongly accused of drug possession and suspended for a year after denying a dean’s…
(KTRS) – A St. Louis County woman is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a man she was supposed to be helping. Prosecutors say that Christine Schall was helping an older man with housework and taking him on errands when family members noticed some financial irregularities. Police believe that Schall ran up more than…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A U.S. Supreme Court ruling is calling into question whether some Missouri abortion regulations will stand. Supreme Court judges ruled 5-3 Monday thatsome Texas regulations are medically unnecessary and unconstitutionally limit women’s abortion rights. Missouri has similar laws requiring abortion doctors to have privileges at nearby hospitals and clinics to…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Two teenagers are dead after drowning in the Meramec River in Castlewood State Park over the weekend. Police say the bodies of 18-year-old Henry Manu and 17-year-old Samuel Neal, both of south St. Louis, were found late Saturday night in the Meramec River at the park. Witnesses told police they…
TROY, Mo. (AP) – Crews continued searching for a Missouri woman after her husband was found shot to death of an apparent suicide. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Lt. Andy Binder also says a recording device belonging to Sussette Benhardt has led investigators “to conclude that she is a victim of assault by” her husband. The St. Louis…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri is fighting a former assistant professor’s effort to collect unemployment benefits after she was fired for conduct during campus protests. Melissa Click, an assistant professor, was fired in February after a videotaped confrontation of her calling for “some muscle” to remove a student videographer from a protest…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The street version of fentanyl blamed in the deaths of thousands of Americans is also threatening police officers, forcing changes in long-standing basics of drug investigations, from confiscations to testing to undercover operations. Overdose deaths have surged as drugs such as heroin, cocaine and counterfeit prescription pills are often laced with…
