ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Officials with Missouri’s secretary of state’s office say there’s a lot of interest in Secretary Jay Ashcroft’s decision to give some voter registration information to the President’s voter fraud commission. Ashcroft’s spokeswoman, Maura Browning says his office received “literally hundreds of calls” about the issue this week. Ashcroft says he thinks there’s a…
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) The cause of a fire that destroyed a tire shop in East St. Louis is under investigation. Firefighters were called to Classic Tire Shop in the 1600 block of State Street around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. One person was sleeping inside the building and had to be rescued, according to investigators.…
Wentzville, MO (KTRS) The death of an infant in Wentzville is being investigated. Police say the 3-month-old child was found unresponsive at a babysitter’s home in the 300 block of Aspen Creek Wednesday morning. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. The child’s name hasn’t been released.
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Crimestoppers has stepped into the investigation into the child who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on the north side last night. Crimestoppers is offering up to $5,000 for information that leads police to make a felony arrest of the driver responsible for the child’s death.The vehicle is described as a four-door…
MADISON, ILL (AP) The Major Case Squad has been called in a case involving the death of a Madison, Illinois, man who was found lying by the side of a road this past weekend. Early Sunday, Madison Illinois Police responded to a call of a man lying on Big Bend Road, just east of Illinois Route…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continue to investigate the deadly explosion that rocked the south St. Louis neighborhood of Soulard. Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said a boiler exploded at the Loy Lange Box Company at 222 Russell Boulevard at just before 8 a.m. Monday. This resulted in three deaths…
(KTRS) – Homicide detectives are on the scene after what appears to be a human skull was found in St. Louis. The discovery was made at a lot on Riverview Boulevard near I-70 just before 9 a.m. Police have released few details about the incident but Fox 2 reports that a Laclede Gas employee may…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Twenty-six years after a woman’s body was found by hikers in a secluded area of northeast Missouri, authorities have identified the victim. Now, the focus is bringing the killer to justice. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Tuesday that the victim was Cynthia L. Day of the East St. Louis, Illinois,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Nearly four years after a robbery in St. Louis, the case is now considered a homicide. Christopher Dutton of Warrenton was shot while being robbed on Aug. 9, 2012. He died in March. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that new autopsy results show he died from “pneumonia due to a gunshot…
WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI agents probing whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server imperiled government secrets appear close to completing their work, a process experts say will likely culminate in a sit-down with the former secretary of state. The FBI has already spoken with Huma Abedin, a Clinton confidant who was among the…