Trenton Forster was convicted of first-degree murder for killing St. Louis County police officer Blake Snyder in October 2016. Forster is challenging that verdict, seeking post-conviction relief.
ALTON - Laila Blakeny of Alton High School and Megan Yarborough of Alton High School were honored as Students of the Month of May at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Alton-Godfrey held at Gentelin’s on Broadway Restaurant. Laila Blakeny is the daughter of Kirk and Tanisha Blakeny. Laila is a senior at Alton High School. She wants to thank the Rotary Club for allowing her to be a Rotary student of the month. At a young age, her family taught her the importance of education. Since kindergarten, she has been on the high honor roll and was inducted into the National Honors Society. She plans on continuing this streak in college. In her free time she plays basketball. She’s been playing basketball for the past 12 years, starting at the age of 6. She has played for Alton High for the past 2 years with her prior 2 years at Lutheran North in St. Louis, MO. Finishing with an incredible and record-breaking season at 32-2! She says the experience playing for Alton was unbelievable.
Here's something every Bob Dylan fan will want to get their hands on. Callaway Arts & Entertainment just announced a new comprehensive book, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up The Medicine, described as “a richly illustrated book…
Police on Thursday identified a man who was shot and killed last weekend when authorities said he tried to rob someone in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood.
WEST ALTON - An area motorist avoided serious injury in a crash where his 2011 Chevrolet Equinox overturned Wednesday on Riverlands Way east of Wise Road. The initial call to first responders sounded serious, Rivers Pointe Fire Chief Richard Bender said. He said the call to them came at 7:49 p.m. on Wednesday. “It was a one-vehicle rollover,” he said. “Thankfully, the man escaped serious injury, but he was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation at Christian Northeast Hospital.” The Missouri State Highway Patrol report said the man ran off the left side of the roadway, struck a culvert, and overturned.
Detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in a gas station shooting in the Princeton Heights neighborhood.
Everyone working in Missouri’s cannabis industry would be required to submit to a fingerprint background check under legislation approved Thursday. Under the constitutional amendment that voters passed in November to legalize recreational marijuana, only the owners of cannabis companies are required to submit their fingerprints to the Missouri Highway Patrol for a criminal background check. […]
While the practice of declawing cats is currently outlawed in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, the Missouri legislature is considering a proposal to nullify these ordinances to make the practice available statewide. Dr. Amanda Gruber of the St. Louis Cat Clinic discusses how declawing affects the health and wellbeing of cats — and why she has never performed the procedure.
An Illinois man convicted of committing an "execution" in broad daylight outside a Granite City tire shop was sentenced Thursday to nearly eight decades in state prison.
EUREKA, Mo. -- Would you like to choose the name of a local brewery? Melvin Brewing in Eureka recently changed owners. They are asking people from the area to suggest a new name. The winner will get a year's worth of beer. You can submit a name for the brewery by entering here. To avoid [...]
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