( KTRS ) The O’Fallon, MO. Police Department is looking for a suspect who viciously attacked a teen and left him needing surgery. Police say the male victim, in his early teens, was assaulted in the Pin Oak Mobile Home Park around 6 pm Thursday night. The victim is currently at an area hospital and…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department enters its court fight against the city of Ferguson with the apparent upper hand given a months-long investigation that found vast problems in the way police and courts treat poor people and minorities in the St. Louis suburb. The Justice Department will look to prove in court the same…
BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) – St. Louis County Health Department says workers will conduct a health survey of respiratory ailments near the Bridgeton Landfill, where an underground fire has been smoldering since 2010. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1SfkUbk ) reports that department director Faisal Khan said Monday that the survey would compare a random sample of…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis utility company is pushing back on the federal government’s plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Even though Ameren Missouri hasn’t filed a court challenge itself, the utility asked the Environmental Protection Agency to prevent implementation of the regulations and re-propose new ones. The company also urged Missouri Attorney…
( KTRS ) A 35-year-old man accused of being involved in a 2014 home invasion that led to a man’s death has been convicted of second-degree murder. Cortez McClinton was also convicted of kidnapping, burglary and armed criminal action. Prosecutors say McClinton and 31-year-old Terrell Johnson attempted to enter a home in the Bevo Mill…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – New estimates show Ferguson’s cost of implementing reforms spelled out in a consent agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice could approach $4 million in the first year alone. This further raises questions about whether the community thrust into the national spotlight after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown can…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The owner of two southern Illinois coal mines says it’s cutting more than 200 jobs at those locations as well as additional positions at a Kentucky mine. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/1QlAzzV ) reports that Alliance Resource Partners LP announced the layoffs at its Hamilton and White County coal mines on…
( KTRS ) A St. Louis police officer has been hospitalized after being hit by a car. Rock Hill city administrator, Jennifer Yackley, says that the officer was stable at a hospital, suffering from a head injury after being hit by a car earlier Sunday. Yackley says the officer had been investigating a report of…
( KTRS ) Amtrak and the Illinois Department of Transportation say they have reached an agreement to maintain existing service on state-supported routes while reducing costs. IDOT says the deal will maintain service through the end of the fiscal year on June 30, at a cost of $38.3 million to the state. The department paid…
St. Louid, MO (KTRS) Major League Soccer in St. Louis looks promising. MLS Commissioner Don Garber told the “St. Louis Post Dispatch” that the league will begin searching for a stadium site in St. Louis and planning for its financing and operations immediately. Garber also said he would begin looking for potential owners. Garber however…