JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Big-name Missouri Republicans and donors have coalesced around Attorney General Josh Hawley as their favored candidate to challenge veteran Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in 2018, which would set up a marquee contest between a wily incumbent and an up-and-coming political novice in a state that has trended conservative. McCaskill…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS ) A Democrat state lawmaker from St. Louis is asking for a state investigation into conditions at the St. Louis Medium security facility, otherwise known as the workhouse. State Representative Josh Peters, in whose district the jail is located, says conditions at the St. Louis workhouse could be unconstitutional. He says inmates have…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal agency is conducting three Title IX investigations at Washington University in St. Louis — two related to allegations of sexual assault and the third a complaint about sexual harassment. Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs Jill Friedman said Wednesday that the investigations are being conducted by the U.S. Department of…
Morgan County, MO (KTRS) Police say a sex offender believed to be with with a central Missouri teen who is the subject of an Endangered Person Advisory is in custody, and the teen who was reported missing has been found. Matthew Fischer, AKA Michael Piznaski, has been taken into custody by the Pettis County Sheriff’s…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Gun violence continues in the city of St. Louis. Police report that six people were shot between 9 p.m. Tuesday and 1 a.m. Wednesday. All of the shootings happened on the city’s north side. The first shooting happened around 9:25 p.m. in the 1400 block of Morrison Lane. It was there…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice has been chosen to sort out whether the state accessed jailhouse visitor logs and telephone recordings to get defense strategy of a man accused in the deaths of two sisters forced off an abandoned Mississippi River bridge. A St. Louis judge appointed Mike Wolff…