Missouri inmate asks Supreme Court to stay execution
Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die Tuesday for using a claw hammer to kill three Columbia convenience store workers in 1994
Retrial begins for man accused of killing wife
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…
Crews find Asian carp closer to Lake Michigan than expected
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
Retrial Begins Today For Lincoln County Man Formerly Convicted In Wife’s Murder
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…
STLCC Adjunct Professors Vote In Favor Of Unionizing
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) 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…
Plan In Place For Students In East St. Louis To Make Up Missed School Days
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…
Murder Count In St. Louis Now Stands At 169
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) 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…
East St. Louis students return to school after strike
( 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…