Lewis County, MO Â (KTRS) Â An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing rural Missouri boy. Authorities say four-year-old Jhul Min is believed to be with his mother, Janelle Min, who does not have custody of the boy. Janelle Min took him from her parent’s home in Ewing, Missouri near Hannibal Monday afternoon, according…
( KTRS ) Missouri is set to execute a man convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer during a robbery in Columbia in 1994. Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die today and would be the seventh person put to death in Missouri this year. Johnson had part of a benign brain…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City erupted in a half-hour flurry of fireworks Monday night after the Royals won the World Series, and the National Weather Service has radar images to prove it. Meteorologist Jared Leighton says the NWS radar in Pleasant Hill, about 45 minutes southeast of Kansas City, shows the most intense…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – One of the more visible protesters during last year’s unrest in Ferguson has pleaded guilty to starting a fire at a QuikTrip in Berkeley in December. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1Ho1S9e ) 19-year-old Joshua Williams of north St. Louis County pleaded guilty to arson, burglary and stealing Monday in St.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a St. Louis 18-year-old who was to go on trial this week for the 2013 shooting death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Tyrell Davidson was released from jail after prosecutors chose not to pursue his case. The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office isn’t publicly…
( KTRS ) St. Louis police now say that a double shooting on the city’s north side was a murder-suicide. The shooting happened Sunday night. Police say 24-year-old Chimera Mayo was found dead inside her home. She had been shot in the head. Police say a 24-year-old man shot Mayo before turning the gun on…
Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die Tuesday for using a claw hammer to kill three Columbia convenience store workers in 1994
TROY, Mo. (AP) – An eastern Missouri man once convicted of murder in his wife’s 2011 stabbing death is getting a retrial. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Russell Faria’s bench trial began Monday in Lincoln County. St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer alone will decide the case. During opening statements. a prosecutor argued that…
The leading edge of the river’s juvenile Asian carp population is about 66 miles closer to Lake Michigan than it was at the beginning of this year
Troy.MO  (KTRS) – A Lincoln County man formerly convicted of murder in his wife’s 2011 stabbing is getting another day in court. Russell Faria will appear in a bench trial today  in which St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer alone will decide his case. Ohmer ordered the new trial after ruling that newly discovered evidence…