(KTRS) – Police are looking for a St. Charles County woman who was last over the weekend. Friends say that the last time they saw Amanda Ford was Saturday at 11 PM. Ford is described as a white woman, around 5-and-a-half feet tall. She drives a blue 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee with Missouri plates SN2-K5M.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer is officially seeking a fifth term in Congress. Luetkemeyer filed for re-election Monday for Missouri’s 3rd District, which consists of 13 counties in central and eastern Missouri. The 63-year-old Republican was first elected to Congress in 2008. No Democrats have filed to oppose Luetkemeyer, but he…
(KTRS) – Four men now face charges connected to a fatal shooting on Interstate 270. 20-year-old John Stith was charged with first-degree murder and nine other felonies. Prosecutors say that Stith and three other men were driving a stolen Mercedes when they pulled alongside a vehicle carrying Emma Wallace and three other people. Someone in…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis area youth counselor is accused of sexual abusing a child. Twenty-year-old William “Billy” Hogenmiller has been charged with first-degree rape for the alleged assault on a child last week. Hogenmiller has worked at a youth-serving organization as a counselor, and an organization that provides respite care to adults…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A senior at Parkway Central High School earned a perfect score on the SAT college entrance exam. Sharanya Kumar achieved the highest possible score of 2,400. This a score typically accomplished by about 0.02 percent of those who take it. Kumar is applying to universities as an “undecided engineering” major. She…
( KTRS ) Recent Illinois gun sales are breaking state records. Illinois State Police did 418,000 background checks on firearm purchasers in 2015 compared with 162,000 a decade earlier. State background checks for December hit a record high for any month at 60,000. The state’s single-day record was broken on November 27th, Black Friday, when background…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A measure to reverse the 2011 merger of Missouri’s highway and water patrols is being applauded by some local officials concerned about a drop-off in troopers on the state’s waterways. But it is strongly opposed by Gov. Jay Nixon. Republican Rep. Diane Franklin of Camdenton filed a bill last month…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are looking beyond the usual places for funding road and bridge repairs after they promised to make the issue a priority this session. In two weeks, House Republicans hope to send the Senate a budget that includes $30 million to revive the Missouri Department of Transportation’s cost-sharing system.…
