Iron County officials say a man, woman, and two infant children were found dead in a home in southeast Missouri. The cause of death has not been determined, but investigators believe an alternative heating source in the living room of the home could be a factor. The bodies of 33-year-old Steven Sikes, 31-year-old Julie Crawford, […]
Survivors of a tornado that leveled a Kentucky candle factory have filed a lawsuit against their employer. They claim Mayfield Consumer Products demonstrated “flagrant indifference” by refusing to allow employees to go home early. The suit was filed in state court. It seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages from the company. A spokesman for the […]
The Associated Press reports that an employee of the Kentucky candle factory, where eight workers were killed by a tornado, says a supervisor threatened her with written disciplinary action if she went home early because storms were approaching. Haley Conder worked at the Mayfield Consumer Products factory on and off for 10 years. In an […]
The Associated Press reports that Kentucky’s governor said that at least 64 people were killed in the state during a devastating cluster of tornadoes. At least 14 people are dead in four other states: Illinois, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told reporters Monday that it could take days more to tally a […]
The Associated Press reports that two weeks after a newspaper discovered a security flaw on a state website, Gov. Mike Parson’s administration has hired a company that performs data breach and credit monitoring services. The state signed a contract with Identity Theft Guard Solutions last week. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered a flaw that potentially […]
The Associated Press reports that the Missouri Supreme Court has refused to halt the October execution of a man convicted of a triple killing who claimed his intellectual disability made him ineligible for the death penalty. Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die by injection Oct. 5 at the state prison in Bonne Terre. It […]
The Associated Press reports that Former state Senator and Republican congressional candidate Ed Emery has died at 71. Gov. Mike Parson announced Emery’s death Saturday in a tweet. Emery collapsed following a speech Tuesday evening from what his campaign called a heart problem. He was hospitalized in Columbia. The conservative Republican from Lamar was seeking […]
The Associated Press reports that a 32-year-old Missouri man who was sentenced to life in prison for murder has been found dead in his jail cell. Anthony Caruthers, of Bonne Terre, was found Thursday by staff at the St. Francois County Jail. Sheriff Dan Bullock said Caruthers was by himself in the cell and there […]