Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Ferguson Mayor James Knowles is officially serving his third and final term. Knowles was sworn in during Tuesday night’s city council meeting. He calls entering his final term as bittersweet. I’m very excited to go out like this, go out having served my third term, hopefully being able to finish quite a…
A man convicted of fatally shooting a couple near De Soto in 1996 has had his death penalty overturned for a third time. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry called the portion of the trial that led up to Carman Deck’s latest death sentence “fundamentally unfair.” She ordered him to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Attorney General’s Office and a Columbia church say that a U.S. Supreme Court case over who qualifies for state grant money should move forward. Lawyers said Tuesday in letters to the high court that the case isn’t moot, even after the governor last week reversed a rule preventing…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A suburban St. Louis man whose 4-year-old son died after drinking the father’s methadone has been ordered to spend 15 years in prison. Thirty-seven-year-old Laron Crawford of Berkeley was sentenced Friday in St. Louis County. That’s where he pleaded guilty in February to charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and two counts…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has passed a plan to change laws on students transferring from failing schools. House members voted 138-6 Tuesday to send the bill to the Senate. The measure would require schools to be accredited by individual building instead of just by district. It would allow students at failing…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has passed a bill on sales tax increases for the St. Louis Zoo. House members voted 88-55 Tuesday to send the bill to the Senate, which is considering a similar proposal. The bill allows ballot initiatives to be brought in St. Louis and St. Louis County to…
CLAYTON (KTRS) St. Louis County police say the human remains found in a subdivision lake over the weekend are the bones of an infant. People fishing found the bones Saturday night in the Behlman Lake Court subdivision in north St. Louis County. Police have not yet determined the exact age or sex of the victim.…
Chicago (AP) Moody’s Investors Service says it will review most of Illinois’s public universities for potential credit downgrades over the next three months. The bond credit rating business made the announcement today, the same day it bumped Northeastern Illinois University’s credit down two levels. Moody’s made the change citing “weakened cash flow” due in part…
