ST. LOUIS (AP) – Prosecutors have charged a former St. Louis police officer with first-degree murder in a 2011 shooting that killed a 24-year-old man after a chase. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce charged 35-year-old Jason Stockley on Monday. A judge ordered him held without bond. Stockley is in custody in the Houston area.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Columbia, Missouri, man faces at least a decade in federal prison after acknowledging his role in a sex-trafficking case. Thirty-five-year-old Kenyata D. Miles pleaded guilty Monday in Jefferson City to a felony count of attempted sex trafficking. Miles admitted he booked two rooms for two nights at the Quail’s…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – Missouri doctors have managed to deliver a baby whose mother was killed in a crash on her way to a hospital to give birth. The Southeast Missourian reports that 26-year-old Sarah Iler and the baby’s father were driving Wednesday from Cape Girardeau to Poplar Bluff when a tanker truck collided with…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KTRS) – A Missing Adult Alert has been issued by the St. Charles County Police Department for Eric Trentmann, 58. According to police, Trentmann was last seen at the Kisker Road Library around 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 9. He was reported to have been wearing a red St. Louis Cardinals jacket,…
Springfield, IL (AP) Governor Bruce Rauner’s vision of a grand two-year budget compromise with Illinois lawmakers is becoming more difficult to accomplish as the clock ticks down on this year’s legislative session. Rauner has asked for pro-business and union-weakening proposals and other legislative changes as part of a budget compromise. While Rauner remains optimistic he can…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect who was the subject of a manhunt in Illinois is dead following a shootout with police. Investigators say Dracy Pendleton was killed early Sunday morning inside of an abandoned house in southern Illinois near the Shawnee National Forest. An FBI agent was also injured in the gunfire. The FBI…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A woman is dead following a weekend shooting in north St. Louis. Police say the 26-year-old victim was shot Sunday night near the intersection of Pennsylvania and Dakota Street. So far, no arrests have been made. Investigators say the incident may have stemmed from an argument earlier in the day at the Annie…
OAKVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A judge has approved a $100,000 settlement in a wrongful-death lawsuit involving the family of a south St. Louis County woman fatally shot while sitting on her back porch. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a judge approved the settlement Friday for the family of 84-year-old Betty Lou Knight, who was…
