( KTRS ) Fifty years after a gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth and months after the woman learned her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins says Melanie Gilmore seeks to invalidate her 1983 adoption and re-establish…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An audio recording has captured a heated phone call between two Republican gubernatorial candidates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1OqBaSp ) reports that former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens is heard calling St. Louis businessman John Brunner a “weasel,” “coward,” “corrupt” and a liar on the Nov. 14 recording. Brunner spends much…
(KTRS) – St. Louis County Police say that the autopsy of 18-year-old Amonderez Green shows his only wound was a self-inflicted gunshot below his chin. Police were called to a Ferguson home October 28 on reports that someone, later identified as Green, may be suicidal. When officers arrived, Green ignored their commands. He eventually pulled…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins announced the petition Tuesday in which…
(KTRS) – The Missouri Supreme Court has tossed out the 1991 double-murder convictions for Reginald Clemons. Clemons has been fighting his guilty verdict and death sentence in the rape and killing of Julie and Robin Kerry. In a 4-3 decision the Supreme Court sent the case back to the circuit court. The state now has…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â The community is reaching out to help a family who lost three children in house fire in north St. Louis over the weekend. A donation site for the Walnut Park family has been set up at the Wohl Community Center in north St. Louis. Besides monetary donations, items such as clothing…
Ferguson, MO  (KTRS)  Today marks the one year anniversary of a Grand Jury’s announcement not the indict then Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Since then, signs of hope have emerged. Some of the nearly two dozen businesses destroyed in the November 24th  riots have reopened. Concrete barricades that…
( KTRS ) Missouri’s Department of Economic Development says unemployment dropped to 5 percent in October. New data from the agency shows the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased slightly last month, from 5.3 percent in September. The department says that’s the lowest it’s been since April 2007. Seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment went up by about…
