BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The 26-year-old son of a former Alorton mayor has been sentenced to consecutive life sentences for killing two men in the nearby village of Washington Park. Randy McCallum Jr. was sentenced Thursday in St. Clair County Circuit Court following his February first-degree murder convictions in the 2009 deaths of Charles Black…
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) – A committee leading the search for a new president of the University of Missouri system nagged by racial unrest says candidates must have “a deft command” of communications and public relations. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the committee approved a list of qualifications for the successor to Tim Wolfe during…
(KTRS) – Two people are dead and a third is in the hospital after a shooting just about a block from Crown Candy Kitchen in north St. Louis. Police say that the suspect or suspects knocked on the door of the apartment and when someone answered the door, the shots started. Two of the victims…
Chicago, IL (KTRS) – The judge in Dennis Hastert’s hush-money case says that if the former House speaker wants letters of support considered during his sentencing, they must be made public. U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin said in a Thursday filing that the court won’t consider 60 letters “unless they are publicly filed.” The…
( KTRS ) Missouri lawmakers have voted to summon a regional Planned Parenthood CEO to explain why she should not be held in contempt of the state Senate for defying a subpoena that demanded documents on how the organization handles fetal remains. The contempt resolution passed by the Senate on Thursday orders Mary Kogut to…
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…
