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February 14, 2024

St. Louis man gets 60 years for killing high school coach during serial carjacking spree

Kurt Wallace, 31, of St. Louis, has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for a serial carjacking spree that saw the fatal shooting of high school football coach Jaz Granderson.

February 14, 2024

Missouri lawmaker wants St. Louis police under state control as crime rocks city

Missouri Republican State Sen. Nick Schroer on what is behind the crime crisis in St. Louis and reports of 326 vacancies in their police department

February 13, 2024

Descendants of enslaved who built Missouri university want over $70 billion for unpaid slave labor

Descendants of the enslaved Black people who built St. Louis University, located in St. Louis, Missouri, calculated that they were owed up to $74 billion in unpaid labor.

February 13, 2024

Kansas City Chiefs fans deaths: 'Walter White narrative' about party host is 'out of control,' source says

A source close to Jordan Willis hit back at the "Walter White-type" narrative that sprung up around the HIV scientist after his three friends were found dead and frozen in his backyard.

February 11, 2024

Missouri infant dies after mother 'accidentally' places baby in oven instead of crib: police

The Kansas City Police Department arrested a mother who allegedly put her 1-month-old daughter down for a nap, but put the child in the oven instead of the crib.

February 9, 2024

St. Louis demolition crew accidentally hits transmission tower with wall, causing explosion

A brief explosion was seen Friday at the site of a burned-out St. Louis factory after a wrecking crew working at the scene accidentally knocked a wall into a transmission tower.

February 9, 2024

Kansas City Chiefs fans' deaths: Victims' families at odds over 'angry' speculation, lawyer says

Tony Kagay, an attorney for Clayton McGeeney's family, said relatives of the Kansas City Chiefs fans found dead outside their friend's home should avoid "angry" speculation.

February 8, 2024

Missouri coroner charged with stealing dead man's money, misstating causes of death

Coroner Wavis Jordan of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, has been criminally charged after allegedly stealing money from a dead person and misstating causes of death.

February 8, 2024

Republican-led, pro-abortion campaign to amend Missouri Constitution dies

Missourians for Constitutional Freedom abandoned its pro-abortion ballot initiative Thursday, which would have amended the state constitution to allow all abortions up to 12 weeks.

February 8, 2024

Missouri Senate kills proposed rape, incest exceptions to state abortion law

The Missouri state Senate voted Wednesday against amending the state's comparatively strict abortion law to allow exceptions for rape and incest.