BRECKENRIDGE HILLS, Mo. (AP) – Police are investigating whether a man charged in the attack of a Breckenridge Hills man is also connected to a house fire that killed the victim’s brother. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1lf5MMS ) that 53-year-old Brian Westfall was critically injured after being stabbed in his bed early Saturday. The…
( KTRS ) U.S. Steel will temporarily idle its Granite City Works steelmaking and finishing operations, putting about 2,000 workers off the job indefinitely. The steelmaker did not indicate how long the shutdown would last in a two-paragraph announcement Monday afternoon. The company says the shutdown is the result of market conditions including fluctuating oil…
( KTRS ) Sunday night, officers from the North County Precinct responded to a shooting in the 10,000 block of Prince Ave. Upon arrival, they located a male victim, laying in the front yard of a residence suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim, identified as 34 yr old Otis Adams,was pronounced…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says the White House is taking action to answer his questions about Syrian refugees entering the country. The Republican issued a statement Monday saying he spoke Friday with the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. According to Rauner, the deputy – Alejandro Mayorkas – promised…
( KTRS ) A St. Louis man has been arrested for shooting a rookie St. Louis police officer. The 24-year-old probationary officer was patrolling with a sergeant Sunday night when they saw a man acting suspiciously. The man, identified as 23 yr old Walter Saddler then ran, and officers chased him through an alley. As…
(KTRS) – For the second time in the past two weeks, authorities are on the scene of a fatal accident at the same St. Louis County intersection. Just after 2 PM Monday two vehicles collided at the intersection of Highway 30 and Watson in Sunset Hills. One person was ejected from a car and died.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Fire Department is urging residents to have working smoke detectors in their homes and about the dangers of secondary heating sources. This comes after a house fire in north St. Louis claimed the lives of three children over the weekend. Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson held a news conference…
Galloway’s office found governmental bodies sometimes discussed issues improperly during closed sessions
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The busy Thanksgiving travel season is underway at Lambert Airport. Airport officials say the travel season which began on Friday, increases up to twenty-percent. The biggest single travel day of the holiday for Lambert is project on Sunday. Lambert, TSA and Airline officials offer a number of travel tips to make…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A space heated in believed to have caused a weekend fire in north St. Louis that claimed the lives of three children. That’s according to fire investigators in Sunday morning’s fire along the 4900 block of Plover Avenue. Two adults and eight children were inside of the burning two-story structure when…