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…
MOUNT CARMEL, Ill. (AP) – The operator of an Illinois oil pipeline is reporting 1,150 barrels of diesel fuel has spilled, resulting in the pollution of at least one river. Marathon Pipe Line LLC says the equivalent of about 48,300 gallons of fuel has leaked from a pipeline near Mount Carmel in southern Illinois. In…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Votes would be asked to change the Illinois Constitution to declare that the state should be responsible for the majority of public school funding under a measure that advanced in the state House. Republicans on a House education panel that approved the proposal Monday were skeptical of the idea and say…
( KTRS ) Police say that five teenagers have been charged as juveniles with felony assault after they say the teens attacked a runner on a park trail in St. Louis with tree branches. Authorities said Monday that five boys, ranging in age from 13 to 16, were arrested and turned over to juvenile authorities.…
