CHICAGO (AP) Governor Bruce Rauner has summoned lawmakers into special session to settle the public education funding issue weeks before the school bell is set to ring. The Republican ordered the House and Representatives and Senate to report to Springfield Wednesday. This was after the Senate missed a noon deadline to send to him…
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — Investigators say a motorist who died after a shootout with police along a busy Missouri interstate had threatened to kill co-workers and a relative, and was wearing a bulletproof vest. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak on Monday identified the driver as 31-year-old Jerrod Kershaw of Pacific, Missouri. He says Kershaw also…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The civil unrest over insufficient air conditioning at the Medium Security Institution seems to have paid off. On Monday, five portable air conditioning units were delivered to the jail, commonly known as the City Workhouse. This was by order of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson. “I support air conditioning at MSI…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have returned to the Capitol for a special session on abortion legislation. Senators met Monday to take up work on a wide-ranging abortion bill. It would impose new regulations on the procedure, including mandatory annual inspections of clinics by the state health department. It would make it a…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The suspect in a standoff with Jefferson County deputies who reportedly fired at officers during a chase on I-55 at I-270 this morning is dead. St. Louis County police released a statement saying the incident began around 9 this morning when a vehicle ran off the road near the intersection of Interstate 55…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating the shooting death of a child at the Clinton-Peabody housing complex over the weekend. Police say the 10-year-old boy was shot late Sunday afternoon in the 1400 block of Kealty Lane. The child died after being transported to the hospital. Investigators are trying to determine if it was…
(St. Louis) -KTRS St. Louis county police are investigating a taxi driver’s claim that he shot a passenger in self defense. Police responded to a call around 1 this morning to eastbound 70 and Jennings Station Road where they found a 48-year old man shot dead in the back of a taxi minivan. The 70…
(St. Louis) -KTRS About 150 protesters showed up Friday night to support inmates who have been complaining about the lack of air conditioning at the jail, commonly called the workhouse, where the majority of those incarcerated are awaiting further court procedures. By the next morning, St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson announced that portable cooling units…