( KTRS ) Kirkwood Police are investigating a armed robbery that took place in broad daylight. Authorities report the robbery happened around 2:30 Monday afternoon in 100 block of West Jefferson. Police say the victim, a woman in her 70’s, was walking to her vehicle when an unknown man approached her, brandished a gun and…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri political insider accused of sexually harassing legislative interns is allowed into the Capitol again. A judge on Monday dismissed a case seeking to extend a restraining order that had barred David Poger from the Capitol. House Counsel David Welch said authorities hadn’t been able to locate Poger to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri court has struck down parts of a law meant to address concerns raised after the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. A Cole County judge ruled Monday it is unconstitutional to limit St. Louis-area municipalities to less traffic ticket and court fine revenues than cities elsewhere in…
( KTRS ) A member of the Patriot Guard Riders, a volunteer motorcycle group that escorts funeral processions for fallen service members, has died after being struck by a minivan. According to the St. Louis County Police Department, the crash happened around 1:30 p.m. at Telegraph and Barracksview roads. The motorcycle driver, identified as 64…
( KTRS ) The O’Fallon Police Department, in Missouri, is asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating the man who robbed a local gas station in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning. Authorities report the robbery occurred around 4:15 a.m. at the UGas in the 800 block of Bryan Road. The suspect approached…
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) – J.T. Realmuto’s two-out, two-RBI bloop single in the sixth broke a 2-all tie and propelled the Miami Marlins to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Realmuto lofted what normally would have been a routine fly ball to right-center field, but Cardinals’ right fielder Stephen Piscotty had been…
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a former Missouri sheriff’s deputy accused of sexually abusing women has been found dead in his jail cell. Ste. Genevieve County sheriff’s Maj. Jason Schott tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1VOUC06 ) that 52-year-old Marty Rainey was found dead Saturday in the county jail. Schott says the Missouri…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois truck drivers will be the target of a 24-hour traffic enforcement effort by state troopers honoring a colleague who died while on duty. Trooper James Sauter died on March 28, 2013 when his patrol car was struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 294 in suburban Cook County. The Wisconsin trucker…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating an Easter Morning homicide. Around 6 am, Sunday morning, officers with the North County Precinct responded to a shooting in the 10400 of Duke. On arrival police found a 41 yr old man with multiple gun shot wounds, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators report that an…
CHICAGO (AP) – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich could soon learn whether the U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal of his conviction on charges of corruption that included an attempt to sell an appointment to President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. The 59-year-old Democrat had five of his 18 convictions thrown out in July…