Five people are in hospital after a six-car crash in Florissant late Thursday night. The crash happened just around 10 p.m. near the intersection of New Halls Ferry Road and Lindbergh Boulevard, when one southbound vehicle struck 5 vehicles going the other way. Two people were ejected from the vehicles they were in. Five people…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Kansas City Public Schools on behalf of a young child whose hands were cuffed behind his back two years ago when he was a 7-year-old second-grader. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City claims the boy was “crying and…
A teenager has been charged for two armed carjackings that took place earlier this year. Police say 16 yr old Paree Demetrius Starks, has been charged as an adult with two counts each of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that Starks was allegedly one of four people in…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The city of Ferguson, Missouri, is making progress on reforms, but attorneys for both sides say much work remains to meet the requirements of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Ferguson reached a settlement with the Justice Department earlier this year aimed at resolving problems in the St. Louis…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri is appealing a federal court’s decision that requires the state to break one of its most-guarded secrets and reveal the name of any supplier of its lethal injection drug. Calling the matter “a question of exceptional importance,” the state on Wednesday asked the full 8th Circuit Court of Appeals…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – The wife of an officer killed in a lone gunman’s ambush in Baton Rouge in July has announced that she’s pregnant. Dechia Gerald tells WAFB-TV (http://bit.ly/2cv3x4G ) that she believes she conceived just five days before her husband, 41-year-old Officer Matthew Gerald, died in the line of duty. Gerald, Officer…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A central Illinois school district sent 600 students home from classes because they didn’t have their required physicals and immunizations. The State Journal-Register reports the Springfield Public Schools students were sent home Tuesday. Superintendent Jennifer Gill says most of those students are heading into sixth, ninth and 12th grades. Gill says one…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Federal tax documents show that Eric Greitens, the Republican candidate for Missouri governor, was paid $700,000 over a five-year period by a charity he founded to help veterans. Democratic candidate Chris Koster is criticizing the payments in new ads launched Wednesday. One accuses Greitens of diverting money intended to help…
Authorities are investigating after a child was shot in the jaw. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports the shooting happened late Wednesday night near St. Louis Avenue and Goodfellow Boulevard. The child, a young girl between the ages of 8-10, was taken to the hospital by her parents and is said to be in stable…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in Riverview, North St. Louis. Police responded to a call for a shooting around 9pm Wednesday night in the 10000 block of Diamond Drive, near Chambers Road. A man was found at the scene with gun shot wounds, he was taken to a hospital where he later…