Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Ferguson’s newly elected council members are officially on the job. Linda Lipka, Heather Robinett, and returning Councilman Keith Kallstrom were sworn in at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. Lipka of the 1st ward says she’s ready to get to work. “My main goal is to get the consent decree moving very smoothly…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says a black male is dead after he was shot and killed by a white officer on the city’s north side. Dotson says two officers were following a suspected stolen car with three people inside Tuesday morning. He says the car pulled into an alley,…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man charged with posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus has changed his plea to guilty. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Park admitted Monday to making a terrorist threat. Authorities say the threats showed up Nov. 10 on the anonymous location-based messaging app Yik…
CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) – A former Mississippi County Detention Center inmate has filed a lawsuit claiming she was abused while pregnant and that abuse caused her to miscarry in December 2014. The Southeast Missourian reports Mississippi County, former jail administrator Cory Hutcheson and six other detention center employees are named as defendants in Tara Rhodes’…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) – Texas Senator Ted Cruz won’t ask for a recount of his narrow loss to businessman Donald Trump in Missouri’s presidential primary. Cruz campaign manager Jeff Roe told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the campaign won’t request the recount. Cruz had faced an end-of-Tuesday deadline to contest the results of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is dead following a shooting in north St. Louis. Police say the victim was gunned down at just before 6 a.m. Tuesday in the 4700 block of McMillan Avenue. There’s no word of any arrests or a motive. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. This brings to unofficial murder…
( KTRS ) After months of negotiations the last public hearing is set on the U.S. Department of Justice’s settlement with Ferguson. The agreement calls for sweeping changes in the city where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot in 2014. The hearing Tuesday morning, where people will get one last chance to weigh in, is…
( KTRS ) A bill moving through the Missouri Senate would change the state’s sentencing guidelines to eliminate the mandatory sentence of life in prison for minors convicted of first-degree murder. Lawmakers have endorsed changing the guidelines to bring them into line with a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found mandatory life sentences for minors…
