ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal grand jury in St. Louis has accused a woman of impersonating a nurse and spending three months at a hospital’s intensive-care unit and with elderly psychiatric patients. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 35-year-old Samantha Rivera is charged with health care fraud and identity theft. Authorities say she has lived…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two suspects are in custody in connection with the fatal shooting at the Busch Stadium MetroLink station. Over the weekend 21-year-old Warren Whitehead and 19-year-old Marvin Anthony Burt were charged with second-degree murder. Police say the victim, 51-year-old Mac Payne, was standing on the MetroLink platform on the night of March…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A north St. Louis woman and her boyfriend are facing charges in the death of her child. On Tuesday, 27-year-old Ebony Jones and 31-year-old Jaramee Ramey were charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. This comes after 6-year-old Mi’Kenzie Bostic was fatally shot at the family’s residence in the 6300 block…
CHICAGO (AP) – Prosecutors have filed hate crime and aggravated kidnapping charges against four black suspects accused of beating and taunting a white man during an attack streamed live on Facebook Cook County prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against three 18-year-olds – Jordan Hill of Carpentersville, Brittany Covington of Chicago and Tesfaye Cooper of Chicago…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Two state regulators and a Flint employee are charged with evidence tampering and several other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city’s lead-tainted water crisis. The charges, filed Wednesday in a state court, stem from an investigation by the Michigan attorney general’s office. Michael Prysby, a district engineer for…
(KTRS) – Four men now face charges connected to a fatal shooting on Interstate 270. 20-year-old John Stith was charged with first-degree murder and nine other felonies. Prosecutors say that Stith and three other men were driving a stolen Mercedes when they pulled alongside a vehicle carrying Emma Wallace and three other people. Someone in…
Columbia, MO (KTRS) A University of Missouri assistant professor is now facing charges stemming from an incident during campus protests. Columbia City Prosecutor Steve Richey filed a misdemeanor assault charge against 45-year-old Melissa Click on Monday morning. The assistant professor of communications, garnered national attention after she confronted a student photographer and another student videographer during the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A north St. Louis man who shot and killed a teenager accused of breaking into his car is now facing charges. However, it’s not for the death of the teen. Sixty-year-old Lervurance McDade is charged for being a felon in possession of a weapon. Back in 2013, McDade was sentenced to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Seven months after the man known as the “Rose Man” was killed in a hit-and-run accident, a St. Louis man is charged in the crime. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that first-degree involuntary manslaughter charges were filed Wednesday against Antonio Cooper. He is jailed on $150,000 cash-only bond and does not…