ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s third-largest county has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturers and drug distributors, accusing them of causing the drug epidemic through aggressive and fraudulent marketing of prescription opioids. Officials in St. Charles County filed the suit Monday, seeking compensatory and punitive damages. The lawsuit says the County spends millions of…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) The Missouri Highway Patrol is investigating after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a police cruiser in St. Charles County. Investigators say at just after 10 p.m.Wednesday, the St. Charles County Police officer was traveling westbound on Interstate 70 in his patrol vehicle when he struck a pedestrian walking…
O’Fallon, MO (KTRS) The search is on after the mysterious disappearance of a father from St. Charles County. Police say 39-year-old Adam Tumbrink of O’Fallon hasn’t been seen since Tuesday. His vehicle was found in a parking lot on Highway K near I-64 on Thursday, with his cellphone inside. Anyone with any information is urged to…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) — A man is dead after a weather-related crash in St. Charles County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that 22-year-old Roy D. Alonso Villa of Winfield was killed Saturday morning on Highway 79 south of Route Y near O’Fallon. The patrol says Villa was traveling southbound on the snow-covered road…
West Alton, MO (KTRS) Two suspects are being sought in connection with a carjacking and an accident in St. Charles County. Police say the male suspects were traveling a stolen Toyota Avalon at a high rate of speed late Tuesday morning when they crashed into another vehicle on Highway 67 and 94 in West Alton. Several…
Foristell, MO (KTRS) One person is dead and seven were injured in a two car crash in St. Charles County. The crash happened at just after 7:30 a.m. Monday on eastbound I-70 near Foristell. Police say a driver in the westbound lanes lost control crossed through the median into oncoming traffic and hit another car.…
Trial date set for next September in Pamela Hupp murder case St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) A new date for Pam Hupp’s murder trial has been scheduled after several delays. On Wednesday, a judge set a trial date for September 11th of 2018 after Hupp’s defense team requested more time to prepare. Hupp’s attorney say the…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) Lawyers for Pam Hupp will be in court today to ask for another delay in her murder trial. Hupp’s defense team claims that the prosecution hasn’t turned over all the evidence to them. The trial is scheduled for April. Hupp is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Louis…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys for a St. Charles County woman accused of fatally shooting a man to shift attention away from herself in another murder case are seeking a delay her first-degree murder trial. Pamela Hupp is scheduled for trial in April. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that her lawyers say prosecutors have…
O’Fallon, MO (KTRS) One person is dead and four are injured after a fire broke out at a home in St. Charles County. Firefighters responded to the burning O’Fallon home on Country Life Drive around 1 a.m. Monday. Fire officials say a woman’s body was found inside of the home after firefighters brought the fire…