A 47 year-old metro east man is facing charges connected a bank robbery last month. Police say that William Grier entered a Regions Bank in Belleville, demanded money from a bank teller and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. He remains in jail on $150,000 bail.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Court of Appeals is being asked to decide if a divorced St. Louis County couple’s frozen embryos are property or human beings with constitutional rights. Jalesia McQueen is suing to be able to use the embryos to have more children. Her ex-husband, Justin Gadberry, says he doesn’t want any…
MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Mexican national charged with five shooting deaths pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of a Missouri man. KRCG-TV reports Pablo Serrano-Vitorino entered the plea Wednesday during a brief arraignment in Montgomery County Court. Prosecutors allege Serrano-Vitorino shot four men to death in Kansas City, Kansas, March…
When Critchlow left the district she was making more than $267,000 a year–one of the highest superintendent salaries in Missouri
(KTRS) – Police are hoping that someone will recognize suspects in a fatal carjacking in newly-released surveillance video footage. Around 10:30 p.m. Sunday on Washington Avenue near 11th Street two suspects walked up to Brandi Hill’s car, shot her, and dumped her body in street before driving off in her car. Hill’s nine-month-old daughter was…
(KTRS) – Forest Park is getting some love from a travel website–the St. Louis jewel was named the best public park in the country by Thrillist. The list-makers said attractions live the St. Louis Art Museum and St. Louis Zoo helped earn the park the top spot.
(KTRS) – Members of the Illinois Congressional delegation say they may block funding for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new facility in north St. Louis. The Senate passed a defense bill that would set aside money to buy the land and design the facility. But the House Appropriations Committee cut all money used to purchase the land…
(KTRS) – Police arrested a St. Louis City alderman Monday on suspicion of domestic abuse. The Post-Dispatch reports that Alderman Chris Carter was arrested after a traffic stop in St. Louis County. The arrest stems from an incident on April 30. Carter’s wife says that during an argument the two shoved each other and then…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Parents, students and graduates of a St. Louis-area school district are making the case for shedding an unaccredited designation, which allows students to transfer to better-performing schools. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education officials heard Thursday from backers of the Riverview Gardens School…
HARTFORD, Ill. (AP) – A Southern Illinois historic site is celebrating the anniversary of the start of Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition of the West. The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford will welcome more than 800 fourth-graders on May 13. They’ll do many of the same things that troops did to prepare…