St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a mentally disabled woman. Police say 33-year-old Jessica Nole left her group home on West Pine in the Central West End on Sunday morning. She walked to the Schnucks on Lindell and hasn’t been seen since. Nole is on medication for mental disabilities…
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) – A white Missouri man is no longer a police officer after appearing in a racially charged music video wearing his uniform and carrying a “cops lives matter” sign. St. Joseph police spokesman Captain Jeff Wilson said in an email Thursday that patrolman Zackary Craft no longer works for the city.…
( KTRS ) Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has formed a bipartisan committee to review the privately run and funded economic development corporation created by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. Madigan announced the creation of the committee Wednesday, saying it’s necessary to ensure transparency with the agency Rauner launched earlier this month to bring businesses to…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The son of a former mayor of the southern Illinois city of Alorton has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for a 2009 double homicide. A St. Clair County jury delivered the verdict Thursday against Randy McCallum Jr., and was quickly escorted out the courtroom afterward. McCallum’s father,…
CHICAGO (AP) – Officials say more than 1 million Illinois residents have health insurance through programs launched by President Barack Obama’s health care law. The number includes more than 388,000 Illinoisans who signed up during the recent marketplace enrollment period and more than 626,000 covered under the Medicaid expansion. It’s the first time the figure…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A judge has issued a restraining order blocking a former lobbyist accused of sexually harassing interns and employees from coming within 1,000 feet of the Missouri Capitol. A Cole County judge granted the restraining order Thursday against David Poger. Calls to Poger were not immediately returned. He was registered as…
(KTRS) – The University of Missouri Board of Curators voted to fire Assistant Professor Melissa Click. The vote came Wednesday night, months after a video of Click calling for muscle to remove a student journalist from students protests on campus. The Board released a statement today saying that pressure from Missouri lawmakers had no influence on…
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Hillsboro, MO (KTRS) – A Jefferson County man is accused of repeatedly stabbing a man who got in front of him at a convenience store’s soda fountain machine. Thirty-two-year-old Bennie Hornbeck of Hillsboro has been charged with felony first-degree assault. Investigators say Hornbeck was at a convenience store near De Soto on Tuesday when he became…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Heroin related deaths are increasing at an alarming rate in St. Louis County. That’s according to a report released by the St. Louis County Department of Health, which detailed drug-poisoning deaths in St. Louis County from 2010 through 2014. In 2012, there were 78 heroin deaths in the county. That…