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.…
(KTRS) – One person is injured after a shooting at a MetroLink station on North Hanley. Fox 2 reports that the victim is a man who was just waiting for the train when two other people started shooting. The victim is expected to survive and police are searching for the men involved in the shooting.
