EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – Authorities are investigating the death of a 3-month-old boy in East St. Louis. Officers were called late Thursday to a home where an infant was reported unresponsive and not breathing. The boy was taken to a hospital and later pronounced dead. East St. Louis Police Chief Michael Hubbard says…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is criticizing some University of Missouri student protesters as “pampered” and the faculty who are backing them as “tenured radicals.” The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1kxNiay ) reports that Kinder discussed the racial discord at the Columbia campus Saturday during a forum for Republican gubernatorial…
( KTRS ) A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Saturday’s murder of a St. Charles man in Hazelwood. According to authorities, the homicide took place just after midnight in the 7500 block of Steve Avenue. Police found the body of 24 yr old Calvin Sharp in the driveway at the scene. After…
( KTRS ) Governor Bruce Rauner has postponed the November 18th budget summit because a family matter will prevent House Speaker Michael Madigan from attending. The change came shortly after Madigan, released a statement saying he needed to attend an out-of-state family funeral next week. The much-anticipated meeting will be the first time in months that…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a trooper has shot a suspect in the shoulder in a downtown St. Louis casino parking garage. Corporation Juston Wheetley says the shooting happened Saturday morning at the Lumiere Place Casino after the trooper was told that a man was driving erratically around the third…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A group of minority former faculty members at the University of Missouri says racial problems must be addressed. The MU Former Faculty of Color released a statement late Friday supporting students protesting what they say is a racist environment at the predominantly white Columbia campus. The statement is signed by…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A graduate student organization at the University of Missouri says new leadership hasn’t yet meant student demands have been fulfilled. But the Steering Committee of the Forum on Graduate Rights in a statement Friday said it looks forward to working with Interim University of Missouri System President Mike Middleton and Interim…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed a community development official with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to the University of Missouri Board of Curators. Nixon said in a news release Friday that Yvonne Sparks will fill a vacant seat on the board, which oversees the university’s four campuses. Her appointment…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis County 19-year-old is accused of assisting in the looting that followed a grand jury’s decision a year ago not to indict a Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that prosecutors have charged Ithamar Trotter with second-degree burglary. Authorities allege Trotter…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis pizza restaurant and karate studio has been raided again amid allegations of neglect and dangerous conditions at a youth shelter there. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that FBI agents and other authorities took part in Thursday’s raid of DoJo Pizza. The newspaper says the business was raided or…