ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials are discussing canceling all but the mot urgent medical procedures and building a field hospital as the coronavirus surges in Missouri. Dr. Alex Garza, the chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, said on Friday that projections show the region’s hospitals maxing out intensive care units in a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say two men were killed Thursday in a shooting in north St. Louis. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says officers were called just after 6 a.m. Thursday to St. Louis’ College Hill neighborhood for reports of a shooting. Arriving officers found two men dead at the scene. Police say…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police arrested an 11-year-old boy after he shot and wounded a 16-year-old boy on Saturday in St. Louis. Police said the 16-year-old was shot in the leg and the arm during an argument shortly before noon Saturday in the city’s Penrose neighborhood. Afterward, the 11-year-old was taken to juvenile detention. The…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis are investigating two fatal weekend shootings and a separate incident where a 3-year-old boy was wounded. Police said a man was found with gunshot wounds to his head shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday in the Carondelet neighborhood in southeast St. Louis. On Sunday afternoon, police were called…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis City is seeing its first coronavirus -related death. St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and Dr. Fredrick Echols, director of the St. Louis Health Department made that announcement during an afternoon news conference on Monday at City Hall. The victim was a woman in her thirties, who was just diagnosed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis-area residents have been ordered to stay indoors to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, which has sickened nearly 130 people in Missouri. The Monday shelter-in-place order in St. Louis took effect a day before such orders were set to be enforced in the Kansas City and St. Joseph…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A bill requiring St. Louis gun dealers to alert police when a firearms purchase is denied because of a criminal background check is the latest step in addressing violence in a city beset by gun crimes. St. Louis aldermen unanimously gave final approval to the bill Friday. Supporters say 30% of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS/AP) A hearing is underway to decide the fate of Missouri’s only abortion clinic. The state’s Administrative Hearing Commission began hearing arguments on (Monday) over whether Planned Parenthood can keep its abortion license. At issue is the state health department’s effort to revoke the license for Planned Parenthood’s clinic in St. Louis.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A bill is moving forward that will require St. Louis gun dealers to report failed background checks to police. Board Bill 106 passed unanimously out an Aldermanic committee on Tuesday morning. Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed, the bill’s sponsor, says he pleased with the outcome. “Certainly common sense gun laws…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) There’s a new initiative to address disparities in transportation infrastructure in rural America. On Tuesday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao was in St. Louis to deliver a keynote address at the annual American Association of State Highway and Transportation meeting. It was there that Chao announced the Rural Opportunities to Use…