ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Missouri law that protects children from abuse by other children has spurred hundreds of hotline calls since it was enacted in August. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1X77YTJ ) reports that the law mandates the Children’s Division to perform family assessments when it receives child abuse hotline calls alleging inappropriate sexual…
( KTRS ) The Ferguson City Council is expected to reconsider approving a deal to overhaul the city’s police and court systems, a move that could help the St. Louis suburb end a costly lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice. Mayor James Knowles III says the council is expected to give a first reading…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Movie director Spike Lee visits the University of Missouri campus to work on an ESPN documentary about the football team’s threatened boycott last fall. The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/1TFS1pS) reports Lee was in town on Saturday night to attend a screening of the student-made documentary “Concerned Student 1950 at the True/False…
( KTRS ) Missouri Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster says the state should not require police to wear body cameras. Koster says he wants to see more police use body cameras, but he would hesitate to institute a statewide mandate for them, adding that the decision should be left to local governments…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving. A House panel heard testimony Monday on three bills that would make it an infraction for a driver to read or send text messages on the road. Missouri currently bans people younger than 22…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Senate leaders have decided to delay moving the news media off the chamber floor because of cost concerns. Senators had voted earlier this year to remove reporters from their longtime seats near the dais effective March 29. Media members were to instead work from a renovated section of a…
(KTRS) – The Major Case Squad is helping with the investigation into the death of a 3-year-old girl in the Barnhart area. Investigators say that the girl’s mother found her body and called police around 6:30 AM on Monday. Authorities say there were obvious signs of trauma to the body, but the girl was not…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Efforts continue to keep the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St. Louis. Mayor Francis Slay was joined by state and federal leaders during a Monday morning news conference, where he announced an offer to make the proposed north St. Louis site more appealing. “On Friday, I told National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo…
CHICAGO (AP) – The Illinois attorney general’s office received more than 25,000 complaints from consumers in 2015. Here’s a look at the top categories and the number of complaints. 1. Consumer Debt (mortgages, collection agencies, banks) 3,350 2. Identity Theft (government document fraud, credit cards, utilities, data breaches) 2,636 3. Telecommunications (telemarketing, cable and satellite…
