ST. LOUIS (AP) — Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis closed for several hours Tuesday after the historically Black school received a bomb threat. The university said in a news release that the campus reopened Tuesday afternoon after an investigation by St. Louis police and the FBI. A search of the campus turned up nothing…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities have identified the man killed in an exchange of gunfire with St. Louis officers that left two of them wounded, one critically. Police said Thursday that the man killed was 23-year-old Equan Hopson. Meanwhile, charges were filed against two other men who were in an SUV with the suspect before…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say two St. Louis officers were hospitalized after being shot in neighboring Ferguson and a man who fired at them has died after being shot by police. Police Chief John Hayden says the two officers, both in their 20s, were in a marked squad car together around 1 p.m. Wednesday…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis are searching for a suspect or suspects after finding a 27-year-old woman shot to death in the city’s Vandeventer neighborhood. Police say the shooting happened Tuesday afternoon, when officers were called to the area just before 4 p.m. Arriving officers found the woman dead from a gunshot…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer has been acquitted of felony assault in an altercation that happened at a convenience store while he was off duty. Brandin Neil maintained that he was trying to arrest Bryan Boyle for disturbing the peace when he tackled him after the two men exchanged insults…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A lawsuit says that a 14-year-old who was critically wounded in a 2016 St. Louis police shooting was unarmed and waiting to discuss a video-game trade with a friend when two officers began to chase him and opened fire. The suit’s contention that Tyron Edwards was unarmed contradicts what then-police Chief…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A lawyer for a former St. Louis police officer who has twice faced trial on charges in the 2017 beating of a Black undercover police officer says a plea deal for his client has been reached. Lawyer Scott Rosenblum tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Christopher Myers plans to plead guilty…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden says he plans to retire in February. Hayden announced his resignation Wednesday after serving about four years as chief. He will retire Feb. 23, the 35th anniversary of his serving with the city’s police department. Former Mayor Lyde Krewson appointed Hayden to take over the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has ruled that the city of St. Louis is not liable in the accidental killing of a police officer while she was playing a variation of Russian roulette. Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty dismissed the city from a lawsuit filed after 24-year-old Katlyn Alix was killed in January 2019 when…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man standing near a truck that broke down in traffic on Interstate 44 in St. Louis was killed when an SUV ran into a trailer attached to the truck. Police said the crash happened around 10:45 a.m. Friday in downtown St. Louis. The man died at a hospital after he…