By KEN RITTER and ANITA SNOW, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Arizona man named in court documents as a “person of interest” during the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history said he had met the shooter one time and sold ammunition to him. Douglas Haig told The Associated Press on…
Madison County, IL (KTRS) The search for a missing Alton woman is over. Investigators say a deceased female was found at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in a secluded wooded area, inside Horseshoe Lake State Park. She has been tentatively as 39-year-old Adria Jean Hatten, who went missing on January 21st. A cause of death is pending autopsy…
DeSoto, MO (KTRS) The cause of a four-alarm fire in downtown DeSoto is being investigated. Firefighters responded to two burning buildings on South Main Street at just before 9 p.m. Monday. Two people had to be rescued. One of the victims had to be taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. The buildings house a church…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police are investigating after burned human remains were found in a trash bin in north St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the remains were discovered Friday morning in a dumpster northeast of Fairground Park. Police Officer Michelle Woodling says officers found the remains after getting a call for help…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating a double shooting at a south city apartment as a possible murder-suicide. Investigators say two people were shot around 5:30 p.m. Friday at an apartment in the 7400 block of Gravois Avenue. When police arrived they found a woman in her sixties dead and a man suffering from…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police have identified a patient who was fatally shot by security guards at Barnes-Jewish Hospital earlier this week. The patient was 46-year-old Andrew Merryman of Ballwin. Police say they believe he was suicidal when he pulled the knives from his pocket Thursday morning at the hospital’s Center of Advanced Medicine. According to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The St. Louis circuit attorney has launched a formal investigation to determine if Gov. Eric Greitens committed any crimes associated with an extramarital affair in 2015. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner initially said Thursday that no criminal complaint had been filed against Greitens, and no evidence of a crime has been presented…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID JEANS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A preschooler toying with the burners on his mother’s stove accidentally sparked New York City’s deadliest fire in decades, an inferno that quickly overtook an apartment building and blocked the main escape route, the fire commissioner said Friday. A dozen people died , and…
By PHUONG LE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Video from the cab of the Amtrak train that hurtled off the tracks in Washington state, killing three people and injuring dozens, shows that the engineer did not appear to be using a cellphone or any other personal electronic device just before the derailment, federal investigators said Friday.…
By RACHEL LA CORTE, GILLIAN FLACCUS and MICHAEL SISAK, Associated Press DUPONT, Wash. (AP) — Federal officials confirmed an Amtrak train was hurtling 50 mph over the speed limit when it careened off an overpass south of Seattle, spilling cars onto the highway below and killing at least three people. Bella Dinh-Zarr, a National Transportation Safety…