JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill to give student journalists more freedom by restricting the types of content school administrators could censor. The bill passed out of the House in March and is awaiting debate in the Senate. The Kansas City Star reports current law allows administrators to censor anything…
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL (KTRS)Â The Major Case Squad says a suspect has been charged with reckless homicide in the death of man whose body was found lying by the side of a road near Madison, Illinois, last week. Authorities say 24-year-old Terrance Smith of Cahokia has also been charged with aggravated fleeing and trying to elude a…
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Jerry Nachtigal, a former journalist who became spokesman for three consecutive Missouri governors, has died. The Miller Funeral Home said Nachtigal died of cancer Sunday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was 57. Nachtigal was Gov. Mel Carnahan’s spokesman in October 2000 when it fell to him to confirm that Carnahan; the governor’s son,…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Local civic leader, philanthropist and widow of the late Des Lee … Mary Ann Lee … has passed away of natural causes. She was 90. In 1945, Lee married Jack C. Taylor, who 12 years later founded Executive Leasing, now Enterprise Holdings. Their marriage ended in 1977, but right up until Taylor’s death…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis police are looking for a gunman who leaned out of a car’s sunroof and fired shots at several people, including a police officer. One woman was struck in the leg and suffered what police call non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting happened Monday morning. Police say an officer at a traffic light saw the man…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) It’s the end of an era in St. Louis. Monday is Mayor Francis Slay’s last full day in office. To mark the occasion, staffers hung a portrait of Mayor Slay at City Hall during a ceremony Monday afternoon. Slay, who is St. Louis’s longest serving mayor, announced last year his decision not to seek another…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis County police are asking for the public’s help in locating two suspects wanted for an armed robbery of a QuikTrip store this weekend in the 10-thousand block of Page. Police say the robbery happened about 4 a.n. Sunday. Two suspects entered QuikTrip, both wearing masks, and stole an undisclosed amount of cash and…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â A man is dead following a shooting in north St. Louis. Police say the victim was gunned down early Sunday morning near North Broadway and East Taylor. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. This brings the St. Louis murder count to…
St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  Today is Mayor Francis Slay’s last full day in office after serving four terms. To mark the occasion, staffers will hang a portrait of Slay at City Hall during a ceremony this afternoon.  Slay was first elected to the Board of Alderman back in 1985. He later became the president of the Board…
