( KTRS ) Drivers will once again be able to use Beaumont-Antire Road to access I-44. A MODOT official says construction and repairs finished early on the outer roadway, so it should be open Friday. The roadway closed August 15 and was scheduled to remain closed for 45 days. Weather permitting, MODOT will reopen the section…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A judge has granted a six-month extension for the new trial for Reginald Clemons, who has spent more than 20 years on death row in the deaths of two sisters who were pushed from an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis Circuit…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate is set to take a closer look at a proposed $66 billion merger of American seed and weed-killer company Monsanto and German medicine and farm chemical maker Bayer. The deal combines two of the six U.S. and European companies that dominate the agrochemical market, and would create a global agricultural…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis police say a 19-year-old man has died nine months after he was shot in the head on a city street. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Antonio Perkins died Sunday night, and his death linked to the Dec. 15 shooting was reclassified as a homicide. There was no immediate…
( KTRS ) Police say a suspected carjacker was fatally shot by the person he tried to rob. Investigators say the 52-year-old owner of the vehicle told police that when an armed man approached him and demanded his vehicle, he feared for his safety and fired his gun. The suspect then fled, but investigators say…
MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) – Five years after St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson launched an effort to increase enrollment at the region’s Catholic schools, enrollment continues to decline. That led to an announcement Friday that John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester will close at the end of this year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
Abandoned is a show that focuses on abandoned and deserted buildings. They come to St. Louis this week, to spotlight a few historic (yet empty) STL City public schools.
WELLSTON, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis woman is facing charges for a shooting on a light rail platform. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 27-year-old Teanna Lechelle Deloch is charged with second-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. She is jailed on $40,000 bond. Police say Deloch carried a .38…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A woman is dead following a shooting in the Central West End. Police say the victim who was in her early sixties, was gunned down near Sarah and Olive streets around 11 p.m. Monday. She died shortly after being taken to the hospital. There’s no word of any arrests or a…
