(ST. LOUIS, AP) — St. Louis police say they are investigating a double killing. Investigators say two men in their 20s were found shot to death Tuesday night. The victims’ names haven’t… Read more »
Category: News
Sheriff: No charges planned in eastern Missouri girl’s death
(GRAY SUMMIT, Mo., AP) — The sheriff of eastern Missouri’s Franklin County says no charges are expected in the weekend death of a 2-year-old girl who drowned in the family’s above-ground swimming… Read more »
Southeast Missouri man accused of killing neighbor
(CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo., AP) — A southeastern Missouri man is jailed without bond after being accused of fatally shooting a neighbor. Fifty-one-year-old Paul Wayne Rudd of Wardell is charged in Pemiscot County with… Read more »
Half of black millennials know victim of police violence
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone… Read more »
A 5-state look at officer decertification for sex incidents
By NOMAAN MERCHANT and REESE DUNKLIN Associated Press An Associated Press investigation into sexual misconduct by law enforcement officers in the U.S. identified some 1,000 in six years who lost… Read more »
Mid-Missouri man faces execution for gruesome killings
By JIM SALTER Associated Press (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The crime was stunningly gruesome: three convenience store workers in central Missouri beaten to death with a claw hammer during a robbery. It… Read more »
Relatives sentenced in kidnapping of boy, 5, from hospital
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A father, grandmother and aunt charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old boy from St. Louis Children’s Hospital have been sentenced after pleading guilty to reduced charges. Porter Stone was… Read more »
St. Louis’ Forest Park seeks public help in improvement plan
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A nonprofit group overseeing St. Louis’ sprawling Forest Park wants the public’s help in figuring out ways to improve the site’s trails, paths and roadways over the next… Read more »
St. Louis police release names in suspected murder-suicide
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — St. Louis police are publicly identifying the man they say shot and killed a woman before fatally turning the gun on himself. Investigators say Vincent Perry shot Chimera… Read more »
HIV-infected St. Louis man accused in child sex case
(CLAYTON, Mo., AP) — A St. Louis man is accused of sexually attacking a girl younger than 12 years old while he was infected with HIV. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1Q3s417) reports… Read more »