BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A former East St. Louis strip club bouncer charged with killing a customer with his pickup truck has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Reginald Allen of Dupo pleaded guilty Monday to mob action in Anthony Rice’s 2009 death. He faces up to six years in prison. He’s scheduled to be…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A select group of sergeants will be the first St. Louis police officers to try out body cameras. St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson says he expects 90 of the department’s roughly 200 sergeants to try out the body cameras in a pilot program starting Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
( KTRS ) A spokesperson for Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office says, a follow-up meeting with legislative leaders on the state budget is slated for Tuesday afternoon in Chicago. The Governer met last week with House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton for the first time in Months. The leaders have not been able…
( KTRS ) A man has been ordered to spend a year and a half in federal prison for a cyberattack that disabled a St. Louis-area police union’s website during unrest related to the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. Justin Payne, 33, was sentenced Monday in St. Louis. That’s where he pleaded guilty in…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The charge of the Ferguson Commission is coming to an end. The 19th and the final meeting of the Commission was held Monday night. The meeting focused on the next steps of implementing the calls to action. The plan calls for the work to continue through the partnership of Focus St. Louis…
(KTRS) – It was a successful Giving Tuesday for several St. Louis-area charities. The St. Louis Business Journal reports the Missouri History Museum launched a campaign to restore Chase Hotel’s neon sign. They hope to raise $10,000 by the Spring–they collected more than $1,000 on Giving Tuesday. Operation Food Search collected more than $9,000 for…
Tom Jones sits down with the Carney Show to introduce his new book “Over the Top and Back” and his new album “Long Lost Suitcase.”
Lawmakers hope to make the issue a priority in the 2016 election
(KTRS) – The Illinois Senate has sent a bill to Governor Bruce Rauner that releases billions for local governments. The legislation represents a compromise between the Republican governor and Democratic lawmakers. The proposal will release about $2 billion of tax revenue collected on fuel, cellphone calls, and more, to local governments. There’s also state funding…
Dixon, IL (KTRS) The search is over for two inmates who escaped from a southern Illinois prison. The Illinois Department of Corrections says 25-year-old Jerrette Reed and 20-year-old Kevin Rivera were captured without incident at just before 9 a.m. Monday in a field west of the Dixon Springs Impact Incarceration Program. A search was launched after…