ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis authorities are investigating the death of a man who apparently fell from the 16th floor at a downtown hotel. St. Louis Fire Department spokesman Gregg Favre told The Post-Dispatch that the man fell from the 16th floor at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel early Sunday. Favre says the…
( KTRS ) A Columbia man has admitted to renting a motel room where a teen girl died of a heroin overdose. The U.S. attorney’s office says that 29-year-old Jon Patrick Washington pleaded guilty Thursday to maintaining a drug-involved premise. Prosecutors say Columbia police officers responded to a suspected heroin overdose death at a now-closed…
MADISON, Ill. (AP) – A 54-year-old southwestern Illinois man has died after falling through the ice on a frozen pond while trying to retrieve a drone. Mark A. Miller of Granite City was last seen near the entrance to the Low Water Dam on Chouteau Island in Madison shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday. Miller’s body…
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) – The death of a 70-year-old man in University City marks the third time since 2013 that a victim has been fatally stabbed inside a home in the St. Louis suburb. Police are investigating to determine if there is a connection. August Lombardo was killed inside his two-family home. A co-worker…
The woman, a young girl, and infant in the car all died
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 70-year-old man has been found stabbed to death in his home in a suburb of St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1JZfQoy ) that a co-worker went to check up on the man at his University City home around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when he found the victim’s body…
SCOTT CITY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a missing hunter has been found dead in southeast Missouri. The Southeast Missourian (bit.ly/1PpLtE7) reports that Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter says 23-year-old Zackary Johnston was underwater when he was discovered Wednesday. He said the death was “an unfortunate accident.” Johnston left home alone at 2 p.m. Tuesday…
LESTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A woman found dead last week near the Black River in southeast Missouri had been missing since November. KFVS-TV (bit.ly/1P0WkbI) reports that the victim has been identified as 63-year-old Sharon Nelson, of Hillsboro. The Reynolds County Sheriff’s Department is investigating her death as a homicide. Her body was found Wednesday morning…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A 14-year-old girl has been fatally shot in a St. Louis home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1SXMg4T ) that police found the injured girl around 1:15 p.m. Sunday at a friend’s home. She had been shot in the back. The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital. St. Louis Police…
( KTRS ) Authorities say an officer fatally shot a suspect in an armed robbery at a KFC in south St. Louis. Police Lt. Col. Lawrence O’Toole says a citizen flagged down an officer in a marked car Sunday evening and reported the robbery at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. O’Toole says the officer went…