JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Senate has voted to tighten the laws on when police can use deadly force. Senators voted 30-2 Thursday to bring the state’s law into line with a 1985 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that police can only use deadly force when an officer believes a fleeing felon poses a…
( KTRS ) Two Illinois Democrats are calling on the pharmaceutical industry to help dispose of leftover medications that could feed addiction. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth sent a letter Thursday to the president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. They are pushing the idea that drug makers have a…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Former University of Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin is preparing to take on a new role at the school but details of what he will be doing remain unclear. Loftin stepped down as chancellor in November after months of disagreements with former system President Tim Wolfe and discontent from faculty and…
(KTRS) – Union workers are fighting back after Schnucks announced they would be cutting 190 warehouse employees. The grocer announced this month that they would be eliminating the union jobs and relocating to a facility that employees non-union worker. The Post-Dispatch reports that the union workers earned up to $22 an hour, but the new…
BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) – An Illinois man is accused in Missouri of possessing components for possible pipe bombs. St. Louis County prosecutors on Thursday charged 44-year-old Douglas Herr of Chatham with a felony count alleging he possessed an explosive substance or material with plans to make an explosive weapon. Bridgeton police investigator Ryan Dickherber alleges…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Senate is missing the large wooden gavel used to call the chamber to order. Senate leaders said Thursday that the gavel was last seen March 18, the day after lawmakers left Jefferson City for their annual spring break. A staff member noticed it was gone March 22 from…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Workers in several industries across the country are participating today’s “National Fight For Fifteen Day of Action.” Child care workers held a rally this morning in south St. Louis to call on the government to provide higher subsidies. Tammy Dale, owner of Teachers Loving Children, says she could pay her employees…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri parole and a woman housemate are accused of sexually attacking a 10-year-old girl who lived nearby. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis County prosecutors have charged 42-year Terry Roderick and 29-year-old Brittany Golden each with four counts of first-degree statutory sodomy. Police allege that Roderick and Golden…
( KTRS ) A former postal worker has been sentenced to four years in prison in a conspiracy to divert mail. Twenty-three-year-old Quentin Cook, of Florissant, was sentenced Wednesday after a three-day trial in federal court. Prosecutors say Cook and three other people who worked at the Network Distribution Center in Hazelwood changed the addresses…
( KTRS ) Election officials say an overworked staff, a tight timetable and technical glitches are to blame for the ballot shortage in several St. Louis County precincts. Directors of the St. Louis County Election Board Eric Fey and Gary Fuhr told lawmakers Wednesday two municipalities submitted their ballot information late, which led to problems…