JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri officials say revenues for the fiscal year that started July 1 are about 3 percent higher than they were in 2015. Acting budget director Dan Haug says individual income tax collections are up 6.2 percent for the July-through-October period this year, going from $1.8 million in FY 2015 to…
( KTRS ) The execution of a Missouri man scheduled for Tuesday has been put on hold and appears unlikely to happen Wednesday, either. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night granted a stay of execution for Ernest Lee Johnson, who was convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer. The case…
( KTRS ) Missouri is set to execute a man convicted of beating three people to death with a claw hammer during a robbery in Columbia in 1994. Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die today and would be the seventh person put to death in Missouri this year. Johnson had part of a benign brain…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City erupted in a half-hour flurry of fireworks Monday night after the Royals won the World Series, and the National Weather Service has radar images to prove it. Meteorologist Jared Leighton says the NWS radar in Pleasant Hill, about 45 minutes southeast of Kansas City, shows the most intense…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a St. Louis 18-year-old who was to go on trial this week for the 2013 shooting death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Tyrell Davidson was released from jail after prosecutors chose not to pursue his case. The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office isn’t publicly…
( KTRS ) St. Louis police now say that a double shooting on the city’s north side was a murder-suicide. The shooting happened Sunday night. Police say 24-year-old Chimera Mayo was found dead inside her home. She had been shot in the head. Police say a 24-year-old man shot Mayo before turning the gun on…
Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die Tuesday for using a claw hammer to kill three Columbia convenience store workers in 1994
TROY, Mo. (AP) – A Lincoln County man formerly convicted of murder in his wife’s 2011 stabbing death will be back in court for a retrial Monday. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1l2YlZk ) that Russell Faria will appear in a bench trial in which St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer alone will decide…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis city police officer is suing the department and three supervisors, claiming he was sexually harassed and retaliated against after he complained. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1MxCzsU ) reports that Kyle Brewer’s lawsuit names a police captain and two sergeants. The lawsuit says that Brewer was subjected to harassment…
