January 27, 2020
By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com With the leaked news that nonprofit organization Better Together was proposing a sweeping city-county merger that would merge St. Louis County and St. Louis city into one new “megacity” that would be one of the largest cities in the nation, 2019 had one of its top stories before it
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Wesley Bell, center, takes questions from reporters after being sworn in as St. Louis County Prosecutor on Tuesday, Jan. 1. Bell has already faced criticism for the decisions he made his first few days in office. Photo by Erin Achenbach. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com To read a related article about Bell
[ Read More ]Elizabeth Snyder, wife of slain St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder, and Dick Snyder, Blake Snyder’s father, react to the sentencing of Trenton Forster in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Pool Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com During the formal sentencing Thursday that sent
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Officer Blake Snyder with his wife, Elizabeth, and son Malachi. Trenton Forster, who was convicted in February of first-degree murder for shooting and killing Officer Blake Snyder in Green Park in 2016, will be formally sentenced Thursday. After a jury convicted Forster of murder Feb. 8, St. Louis County Circuit Judge Kristine Kerr
[ Read More ]Pictured above: The Affton Southwest Precinct, as seen when residents decorated the patrol car of fallen Officer Blake Snyder after he was killed in the line of duty in October 2016. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com After four hours of deliberation last week, a St. Louis County jury convicted Trenton Forster of first-degree murder with
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Peggy Snyder, Officer Blake Snyder’s mother, hugs Green Park Officer Lacey McLean in the hallway outside the courtroom Friday after a jury convicted Trenton Forster of first-degree murder in the killing of Officer Snyder. Snyder’s father Dick is shown in the background. Photo by Gloria Lloyd. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com After four
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Officer Blake Snyder’s father, mother, wife, son and other family members attend a dedication at the Affton Fire Protection District headquarters for the new Officer Blake Snyder Memorial Highway on Oct. 27, 2018. Snyder was killed over two years ago while responding to a domestic disturbance call in Green Park. Photo by Erin
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Officer Blake Snyder with his wife, Elizabeth, and son Malachi. By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com The trial of the south county man who admits he shot and killed Officer Blake Snyder is underway in Clayton this week, and with Trenton Forster’s guilt not up for debate, most of the courtroom testimony centers
[ Read More ]Pictured above: Officer Blake Snyder, middle, with his wife, Elizabeth, and son Malachi. County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced Friday he will not pursue the death penalty in the murder trial of the teenager accused of killing Officer Blake Snyder. Trenton Forster, 19, of Affton, will stand trial for first-degree murder Feb. 4, 2019, more
[ Read More ]Byline: An 18-year-old from south county has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with last weeks killing of Officer Blake Snyder of the St. Louis County Police Department.
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