ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis public defender is accusing a circuit attorney of violating Missouri Supreme Court rules by withholding information about crime victims and witnesses. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce’s office and her prosecutors have stripped the telephone numbers, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses of victims…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – People who move to Missouri and join National Guard or Reserves will be immediately eligible for in-state tuition at Missouri colleges and universities under a new state law. To get in-state tuition, students currently must get a full-time job or live in Missouri for a year and meet other requirements. Under…
( KTRS ) Authorities continue to investigate a 12 hour standoff between police and a man that held 2 people hostage. The standoff began Sunday when a caller told police a man was making meth in the garage. Police reported Monday that the 53-year-old suspect showed a shotgun and refused to leave. That led to…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – House Speaker Michael Madigan has canceled a planned session for Wednesday. The Chicago Democrat released a statement Monday that legislative “working groups” continue meeting to discuss a solution to the yearlong budget stalemate. Madigan says both House and Senate members will meet again Tuesday for bipartisan talks on issues crucial to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A women’s basketball player at a university in St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against the school, saying she was wrongly accused of drug possession and suspended for a year after denying a dean’s sexual advances. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1XTo6wC ) reports that Brittany Jackson filed the lawsuit against Harris-Stowe…
(KTRS)- UPDATE: Everyone is safe after a bomb scare at Mercy Hospital on Monday. The incident began this morning when a hospital employee saw something suspicious inside a mental patient’s bags. That is when the employee took the bags outside, leaving one at the helipad and another on a sidewalk. When the bomb squad responded,…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Efforts continue to move Ferguson forward. On Monday morning, Congressman Lacy Clay met with Ferguson Police Chief Delrish Moss and other community leaders at Ferguson’s new Starbucks. Clay says he’s appreciative to Starbucks for choosing Ferguson. “One thing we’ve learned over the almost last two years was the economic inequality that existed…
CHICAGO (AP) – A measure giving Illinois voters a chance to decide if an independent commission should draw the state’s political boundaries is a step closer to the ballot. The State Board of Elections voted Monday that the group called the Independent Map Amendment appeared to have enough valid signatures for the constitutional amendment and…
