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…
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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…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â St. Louis Community College adjunct faculty now have a voice in their working conditions. Over the weekend, these faculty members voted in favor of joining the Service Employees International Union Local 1. SEIU Local 1 has been working with college and university professors throughout the Midwest on organizing efforts. Over the…
East St. Louis, IL  (KTRS)   Classes are back in session today in the East St. Louis School District. This comes after teachers approved a new four-year contract on Friday, ending a 21  day strike. This means students will have to make up those missed days of school. District officials say this will be done by extending…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â The murder rate in the city of St. Louis continues to rise. Police say last night a man and a woman were gunned down Sunday night along the 900 block of Hamilton Avenue in the Central West End. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The man is in critical…
( KTRS ) More than 6,000 East St. Louis students are returning to school after a one-month teachers’ strike. District officials and union negotiators struck a tentative deal Friday after a 13-hour bargaining session that lasted until 1:30 a.m. The four-year contract was quickly endorsed by a majority of the roughly 400 striking teachers as…
FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) – A southwestern Illinois school district that paid $5.6 million to settle four lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of students by a former superintendent says its insurers are denying coverage for a fifth complaint. The Freeburg district in St. Clair County settled complaints by former elementary students who claimed abuse by Robin Hawkins,…
