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MoDOT director credits worker retention to pay raises

9 months 3 weeks ago
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. โ€“ After struggling for years to find workers, the Missouri Department of Transportation continues to gain staff.ย  At one point, the state's transportation department was short a thousand employees, but now there's only 200 vacancies. Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) Director Patrick McKenna said another pay raise from the General Assembly is [...]
Emily Manley

Vigil held at Kiener Plaza, honoring Sonya Massey

9 months 3 weeks ago
The nation mourns as vigils are held from coast to coast for Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman fatally shot by police in her Springfield, Ill., home. Residents gathered at Kiener Plaza in St. Louis Monday evening, united in grief and outrage over what they see as a tragic miscarriage of justice. ย ย 
Taylor Harris

Best of You Paid For It: No laughing matter

9 months 3 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS -- Elliott Davis is retiring after 45 years at FOX 2. He is sharing the top ten "You Paid For It" reports. Check out this interview with the St. Louis Comptroller that goes off the rails and the former head of Bi-State finds himself in hot water after calling Elliott a clown. It [...]
Joe Millitzer

Motorcyclist dies in three-vehicle crash in St. Louis County

9 months 3 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A 22-year-old man was killed in a three-vehicle accident that caused two motorcyclists to overturn in Huntleigh. The Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) reports that the crash occurred around 7:55 p.m. Monday night on northbound Route 61, north of Deacon Drive. The crash involved a 2008 Honda Element, a 2016 [...]
Megan Mueller

Trump agrees to be interviewed as part of an investigation into his assassination attempt, FBI says

9 months 3 weeks ago
WASHINGTON (AP) โ€” Former President Donald Trump has agreed to be interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into his attempted assassination in Pennsylvania earlier this month, a special agent said on Monday in disclosing how the gunman prior to the shooting had researched mass attacks and explosive devices. The expected interview with [...]
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press

1 man dead in Wentzville mobile home fire

9 months 3 weeks ago
Members of the Wentzville Fire Protection District were back on the scene of an early morning fire at a mobile home park off Lucille Street to put out hotspots kicked up by Monday afternoon winds.
Patrick Clark

With DUI-related ejection from Army, deputy who killed Massey should have raised flags, experts say

9 months 3 weeks ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) โ€” The Illinois sheriff's deputy charged in the shooting death of Sonya Massey was kicked out of the Army for the first of two drunken driving convictions in which he had a weapon in his car, authorities said, but that didn't stop multiple law enforcement agencies from giving him a badge. Before [...]
JOHN O'CONNOR and LOLITA BALDOR, Associated Press