( KTRS ) A St. Louis daycare business has lost its license after a 3-year-old boy was left unattended on a bus for several hours. Tahanica Scott, the child’s mother, says her son, Dallas Scott, was left on the bus from GSL Development Center for seven hours without food or water on Monday. The child…
( KTRS ) We may only be in the second month of the year, but St. Louis’ official homicide number has already reached fifteen. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Departments homicide statistics, released Tuesday, show there have already been six in the central patrol area and nine in the North Patrol area. All victims are…
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 fired Pine Lawn police lieutenant has been convicted of conspiring to falsely arrest a mayoral candidate. The U.S. attorney’s office says in a news release that 35-year-old Steven Blakeney has been found guilty of three criminal civil rights charges. Prosecutors say the false arrest happened in March 2013. Witnesses testified during…
( KTRS ) The DEA will be holding a press conference, later this morning, to announce a new plan combating the heroin epidemic in St. Louis. The Drug Enforcement Administration says the “360 Strategy” is a “comprehensive law enforcement and prevention strategy” to help cities dealing with heroin, prescription drug abuse, and violent crime. Several…
BURNS, Ore. (AP) – The leaders of an armed group that’s occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for the past three weeks are under arrest. Militant leader Ammon Bundy and his followers were reportedly heading to a community meeting Tuesday afternoon when they were stopped by FBI agents. Bundy, his brother and three others were…
(KTRS/Fox 2) St. Louis police are investigating the city’s 8th homicide after a weekend of violence. Fox 2 news reports the Sunday afternoon homicide took place on the city’s north side. Around 5pm officers were called to the area near Enright and Clarendon to a report of two males victims of a shooting. Upon arrival,…
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…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Relatives of a man fatally shot by an off-duty St. Louis police officer have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1ZPVm97 ) reports the suit was filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court on behalf of the parents of VonDerrit Myers Jr. and the mother of his child.…
Warren Marshall was shot and killed on December 8 while waiting at the stop on the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood