ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri legislator has released a video that he says supports his lawsuit claiming police officers used excessive force while arresting him during a protest of a fatal police shooting. The edited video released Sunday on state Rep. Bruce Franks Jr.’s Facebook page was shot during protests after a white police…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is claiming that a video the White House released depicting contact between a White House staffer and a CNN reporter wasn’t altered. Trump tells reporters that the video distributed by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was simply a “close up” and “was not doctored.” But a frame-by-frame…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The first publicly released video of Texas police closing in on the suspect in a series of deadly Austin package bombings shows officers approaching his SUV before the vehicle explodes. Aerial footage released Friday by the Texas Department of Public Safety comes five months after police say 23-year-old Mark Conditt blew…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis tourism officials are busy using the positive media attention from the PGA championship as a platform for better publicity nationwide. Officials with Explore St. Louis estimate more than 80,000 people from outside the region came to St. Louis for the PGA tournament. They also estimate the championship generated about $100 million…
FAUCETT, Mo. (AP) – Some seniors at a northwest Missouri high school will not be disciplined after making a “humorous” video depicting the lives of slaves in the 1850s. The history students at Mid-Buchanan High School were asked to make a video explaining the Fugitive Slave Act, which required that all escaped slaves be returned…
CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge has granted the release of 2013 surveillance video showing a white Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 17-year-old black carjacking suspect. The judge lifted a protective order that barred the release after the city dropped its objections. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration and the police force have come under intense…