ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones, who has been outspoken in her criticism of the criminal justice system’s “arrest and incarcerate” model, will take over leadership of a city in the midst of yet another wave of violent crime after winning election as mayor on Tuesday. Jones defeated Alderwoman Cara Spencer in…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A task force appointed to examine concerns about a St. Louis jail is urging the city to create an independent oversight board to help oversee the lockup. Task force leaders shared the group’s findings with Mayor Lyda Krewson on Friday. Its chairman, the Rev. Darryl Gray, called the creation of an…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A potential aerial surveillance program aimed at helping St. Louis police investigate the city’s soaring violent crime problem has cleared one hurdle. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Board of Aldermen voted 15-14 Friday to give preliminary approval to the measure. It would direct Mayor Lyda Krewson or her successor…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS / AP) Authorities say a St. Louis police officer who was shot in the head while responding to a shooting on the city’s south side has died. Twenty-nine-year-old Tamarris Bohannon had been with the department for nearly four years. A second officer who was shot in the leg Sunday was treated…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white couple pointed guns at protesters in St. Louis, as the group marched toward the mayor’s home, demanding her resignation. A social media video showed the armed couple standing outside their home Sunday evening, shouting at protesters, while people in the march urged the crowd to ignore them. Protesters were…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson is taking Missouri Governor Mike Parson to task over his handling of the COVID-19 outbreak. St. Louis, which just saw it’s first Coronavirus-related death, is Missouri’s second most-populated city. But, Mayor Lyda Krewson says, “The first round of tests that the state got I understand was…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Mayor Lyda Krewson is urging regional leaders to work with Bi-State to create a plan to restart the embattled Loop Trolley. This comes after Bi-State rejected a trolley takeover plan on Friday. Wednesday, Krewson said she is concerned that the federal government could sue cities and municipalities for unused grant funds,…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Mayor Lyda Krewson signs off on a bill aimed at advancing the use of solar energy in the city. In a release, Communications Director Jacob Long says that Board Bill 146 makes St. Louis the first city in the Midwest – and the second in the nation – to require new…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two St. Louis city aldermen say they will launch a petition drive to recall Mayor Lyda Krewson to protest her support of a plan to merge St. Louis and St. Louis County . Aldermen Brandon Bosley and John Collins-Muhammad said at City Hall on Tuesday that merger would reduce African-American political…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — St. Louis plans to change residency requirements to allow the next 50 police recruits to live outside the city limits. Mayor Lyda Krewson announced Friday that the Civil Service Commission voted to waive the requirement that police officers live in the city for their first seven years on the job.…