SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s database of banned character combinations on license plates has grown over the past 40 years to include more than 7,000 arrangements of letters and numbers deemed too offensive. State legislators first got involved with personalized license plates in 1977 and the rules for obscene plates have remained the same since…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in Ferguson are investigating a shooting that killed one person and critically injured another. Ferguson officers who responded to a report of several masked suspects “lurking” about 10 p.m. Friday found two semi-conscious victims of gunshot wounds. One of those victims died a short time later at a hospital. Authorities…
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Manhattan couple apparently distraught over their finances jumped from the man’s ninth-floor Madison Avenue office window and died. Fifty-three-year-old chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia Colant, 50, were found Friday morning. Police say they each had suicide notes that referenced financial problems. Chief of detectives Robert Boyce…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after the body of a man was found in north St. Louis. Police say the discovery was made Saturday morning along the 5000 block of Wells Avenue. The victim suffered a gunshot wound according to investigators. The victim’s name has not yet been released.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock says he is free of cancer more than three months after the 78-year-old St. Louis Cardinals great announced he had been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. Brock said in a statement Friday that a doctor’s diagnosis that he had conquered multiple myeloma…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri state workers in Jefferson City are getting an extra holiday this year — Aug. 21, the day of the solar eclipse. State officials said Friday that with up to 50,000 visitors expected in Jefferson City to see the eclipse from one of the best viewing spots in the nation,…
Columbia, MO (AP) — A former University of Missouri student is suing a fraternity and its parent organization over an alleged hazing incident he says left him with near-fatal alcohol poisoning while the frat already was on probation for alcohol infractions. Brandon Zingale’s lawsuit filed Thursday in Boone County — home of the Columbia campus…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri appellate judges are changing the description of a Missouri referendum aimed at repealing right to work Missouri Western District Court of Appeals judges on Friday ruled to switch back to the original summary approved by Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office. A summary is meant to help voters understand…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Once again, the city of St. Louis has an air pollution monitoring program and soon, two inspectors will patrol construction projects across the city. The law is the result of a yearlong effort by 20th Ward Alderwoman Cara Spencer. It gained added momentum when hazardous materials were released into the air from a…
FLORISSANT, MO (KTRS) St. Louis County police say a man who fled police after an officer tried to pull him over was later involved in a fatal accident in Florissant. No names have yet been released. County police say it began about noon Friday when police spotted a car they considered suspicious in Florissant. An officer…