Ferguson, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing Ferguson man. Police say 20-year-old Ryan Becker, who is mentally disabled, was last seen walking down an alley in the area of Walnut Grove Elementary School around 5 a.m. Wednesday. Ryan is described as white, weighing 165 pounds, with brown hair brown…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO , WASHINGTON (AP) — Christine Blasey Ford wants the FBI to investigate her allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before she testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week, her lawyers said in a letter to the panel. The lawyers wrote that Ford,…
A valet driver is run over and killed in a metro-east parking lot. Thirty-nine-year-old Kenya Randall was struck and killed while working at the popular Club-Da-Beano Monday night. East St. Louis Detective Lemar Martin says surveillance video shows the driver did brake but then kept going. Co-worker Earlest Johnson says Randall was well liked and…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump showered sympathy Tuesday on Brett Kavanaugh, his embattled Supreme Court nominee who is accused of sexual assault, as Senate Republicans and Democrats fought determinedly over who should testify at a high-stakes hearing on the allegation just six weeks before major…
WARRENTON, Mo. (AP) — A Warrenton woman is accused of killing her 85-year-old mother. Fifty-one-year-old Marlene Wynn was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder. She is jailed on $500,000 cash-only bond. The name of the woman who was killed has not been released. Warrenton police say officers were called to Wynn’s home around 11 a.m. Monday…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Elizabeth Smart said Tuesday that she’s been assured the woman who helped kidnap her when she was 14 and stood by as she was sexually assaulted will be closely watched when she’s released from prison. In an interview on “CBS This Morning,” Smart said she believes Wanda Barzee remains a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 6:45 p.m. A longtime friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he has “no memory” of a decades-old sexual assault that a woman is accusing Kavanaugh of committing. In a statement given through his lawyer, Kavanaugh friend…
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian reconnaissance aircraft was shot down by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli airstrike, killing all 15 people aboard, in what President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday was “a chain of tragic accidental circumstances.” The downing of the Il-20 highlighted the dangers posed by the conflicting interests of various powers in the…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A man already imprisoned for armed robbery has been charged in a 1999 murder in St. Louis. Thirty-nine-year-old Deangelo Thomas was charged Monday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 30-year-old Floyd Epps. Epps was found shot to death at a St. Louis park in February…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The Illinois State Fair lost nearly $210,000 on its Grandstand concerts in Springfield last month after seeing record ticket sales a year ago. Figures released by fair officials show it took a big hit over country star Thomas Rhett’s weather-canceled show. The State Journal-Register reports the fair would’ve lost only about $75,000 loss…