Ferguson, MO (KTRS) A child is hospitalized after being hit by a car in Ferguson. Authorities say the third grade girl was struck in the 200 block of Day, near Griffin Elementary School around 9 a.m. Thursday. There’s no word on her condition. The driver did stop and is cooperating with police.
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) A $10,000 reward is being offered to captured the so-called ‘Left Handed Bandit’ in Tuesday’s bank heist at Great Southern Bank in Ferguson. Investigators say the male suspect used an assault rifle to hold up the bank along the 10000 block of West Florissant Road. He made off with an undisclosed amount of…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson is reviewing nearly 8,000 pre-2014 municipal court cases to determine which should be thrown out, a process expected to take about six months. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry on Tuesday heard a status update on the consent agreement between Ferguson and the U.S. Department of Justice. The agreement requires Ferguson…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Nursing home workers at Christian Care Home in Ferguson are officially on strike. The workers, who are members of SEIU walked off the job at 6:30 a.m. Friday. Union leaders say the workers decided to go on strike following what they believe to be ownership’s ongoing refusal to obey labor law and to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have arrested five people in Ferguson following the latest round of protests over a white former St. Louis police officer’s acquittal last month in a black suspect’s shooting death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police told about 50 protesters gathered Friday outside the Ferguson police station to leave several…
ST. LOUIS (AP) Prosecutors in Ferguson have dropped charges against a Navy veteran in a case that the Justice Department cited in a highly critical report about the city’s police and courts. In 2012, Fred Watson was in his car after playing basketball when a police officer told him to put his hands on the steering…
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecutors in Ferguson have dropped charges against a Navy veteran who lost his job after his arrest five years ago in a case highlighted in a scathing U.S. Department of Justice report, attorneys for the man said Tuesday. Fred Watson was sitting in his car after playing…
CLAYTON, MO (KTRS) – The man accused of fatally shooting a 9-year-old Ferguson girl two years ago will go to trial in January. St. Louis County Circuit Judge Stanley Wallach has set a trial date for January 22 for 23-year-old De’Eris Brown. He is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jamyla Bolden…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Wednesday marked the three year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown during a police confrontation in Ferguson. About 100 supporters gathered for a remembrance ceremony outside of Canfield Green Apartments in Ferguson, the site where the 18-year-old died. The event was highlighted with dance performances, involving a “hands up, don’t…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in Ferguson are investigating a shooting that killed one person and critically injured another. Ferguson officers who responded to a report of several masked suspects “lurking” about 10 p.m. Friday found two semi-conscious victims of gunshot wounds. One of those victims died a short time later at a hospital. Authorities…