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Legislature yet to tackle minimum wage issue

The Missouri Legislature wraps up its current session this week, tackling issues ranging from Medicaid to abortion. But for fire district officials across the state, the big… Continue reading

BIG LAKE, Mo. (AP) — Crews continued to dump rock today along the side of flooded railroad tracks as they sought to restore access to an area that was inundated after nine levees broke.

Floodwater continued… Continue reading

A barefoot Samson Shelton, dressed in a white hospital gown, left a Belleville hospital Wednesday bound for the St. Clair County Jail, where he was booked and charged with six… Continue reading

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Police searched a high school with a bomb-sniffing dog Thursday after a cafeteria worker reported seeing two men in camouflage in a hallway more than an hour before classes.… Continue reading

The boy went to the doctor after telling his mom he was hearing popping like Rice Krispies in his ears.

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Forget peas and carrots, a nine year old Oregon boy finds spiders… Continue reading

Roderick G. “Rod” King, , aka, Dr. Jockenstein, the legendary disc jockey who for three decades mentored other DJs and played the music and offered the talk that drew thousands of fans and radio listeners… Continue reading

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Diego Corrales, a former world champion boxer who scored one of the most memorable knockouts in boxing history, died Monday in a three-vehicle accident near his Las Vegas… Continue reading

Police near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma are looking for toiletry-stealing bandits who assaulted a pregnant woman during their crime.

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It happened at a Family Dollar store in Warr Acres, Oklahoma.The confrontation was captured on store… Continue reading

Three men face federal charges in connection with a drug ring that used tour buses to move millions of dollars and marijuana between Detroit and Tucson, Ariz. U.S. Attorney Steven Biskupic said authorities… Continue reading

Ex Wife Says Punishment Not Enough

A former Washington County man is sentenced to 14 years in prison after failing to pay child support, but his ex-wife said the punishment isn’t enough. Authorities said John… Continue reading

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Sometimes a kid’s just gotta find some space or at least a little candy. Something like that was apparently going through the minds of two girls at a… Continue reading

A St. Louis-area man was convicted Thursday in the deaths of his two young children who were suffocated in a muddy bank of the Mississippi River.

Anthony Moore, 27, of Berkeley, Mo., was found guilty… Continue reading


Finders isn’t keepers — even if the money is in your bank account.

At least according to authorities in Nebraska.

George Costa is charged with felony… Continue reading


A statewide school dress code is gaining some support in Florida. It would ban anyone’s pants

Two Texas toddlers seen smoking marijuana on videotape will remain in foster care.

The children’s teenage uncle, Demetris McCoy, and his friend, Vanswan Polty, are in jail, accused of injury to children after forcing them to… Continue reading

Plainfield, New Hampshire — April 24, 2007

“This is state, state land, I have nothing to do with the federals, nothing, not even their president,” said convicted tax evader Ed Brown.

That is what Ed Brown told Channel… Continue reading

A New Hampshire couple convicted of tax evasion will be sentenced Tuesday.

Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted of not paying federal income taxes for ten years, and owing more than $600,000 in back taxes.

They have… Continue reading

A woman who was a passenger on a motorcycle was dragged for hundreds of feet after the driver of the motorcycle, Timothy Ritchie, hit a deer.Timothy and Medrina Ritchie were on a 1990 Harley Davison… Continue reading

Police continue to investigate a robbery in an Oak Park office complex on Greenfield Road that occurred three weeks ago.The robbery was captured on surveillance video and shows a security guard confronting two robbers.The guard… Continue reading

A mad dash for cash brought traffic to a screeching halt on a Spokane highway.

Thousands of dollars floated through the air with drivers trying to grab their share on Sunday.Dollar bills were flying from a… Continue reading

A jet flying in formation with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision flying team crashed into a Beaufort, South Carolina, neighborhood, causing an “enormous fireball” during an air show, authorities said.

KSDK NewsChannel 5 - One Man Dead, Police Officer Seriously Injured After Downtown Shooting
One Man Dead, Police Officer Seriously Injured After Downtown Shooting
Created: 4/20/2007 11:32:50 PM
Last updated: 4/21/2007 1:36:53 AM

(KSDK) - One man is… Continue reading

Witnesses tell police that just before 6:00 p.m. on Friday, two men armed with guns approached the victims, opened fire and then took off on foot.
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Relatives say 21-year-old Renais Mattox died at the… Continue reading

Friday, April 20, 2007

Two people are dead and a pregnant woman is injured after two gunman opened fire on a group in East St. Louis.

The shootings happened in broad daylight in the 600 block… Continue reading

A baby sitter already accused of killing a pregnant friend was charged Friday with drowning the woman’s three children in a bath tub and then hiding the bodies in the family’s washing machine and dryer.
Grand… Continue reading

Thursday, April 19, 2007

police say a 16-year-old girl is in hot water, suspected of robbing a bank today.

Authorities say they arrested the teenager moments after the… Continue reading

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Three teenagers are charged with breaking into a St. Charles home and stealing a dozen guns.

The weapons include handguns, rifles and shotguns.

The alleged

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CAHOKIA, Ill… Continue reading

For two years, progress on a new Mississippi River bridge has stalled because of a dispute between Illinois and Missouri over whether to build it as a tollway.

Now the deadlock… Continue reading

Officer testifies at inquest for ESL mother who was slain

Grisly details of the last moments of life for three children allegedly drowned by a woman accused of killing their mother and… Continue reading