St. Louis prosecutors on Wednesday charged Derrick Bostic, 18, with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action.
Mayor Cara Spencer said the city learned in a test of the system on Tuesday that the button, one of two that turns on the sirens, wasn't properly functioning.
βThat is inappropriate and horrifying,β St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said in a Wednesday morning press conference. βOur commissioner is a human being and Iβm asking for some grace.
Shedrick Kelley, who was nominated Saturday by the city Democratic Central Committee, will be one of at least three candidates for the seat in a July 1 special election. And the field could grow to five.
Keiner Asprilla was staying in a university-paid room in downtown Columbia, Missouri, last September. He is alleged to have held a woman against her will and repeatedly raped her.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. β A man who admitted in federal court to setting the fire that destroyed a church has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison and ordered to pay the church nearly $7 million.