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An elderly Missouri man died with his wife in a house fire Thursday after he refused to escape to safety without her. Dispatchers told Kenneth Zerr to flee his New Melle home that was quickly becoming consumed by flames, but he opted to stay inside to find his wife, Phyllis, the couple’s son told KSDK. “The dispatch told my father to come out of the house and my father said, ‘I’m not leaving my wife’ and stayed with her. Until the end,” Andy Zerr said as he fought back tears. Phyllis had fallen from her wheelchair onto the floor of...

Christine Byers of KSDK in Missouri has uncovered evidence of prosecutorial misconduct by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's office. Kim is one of the radical prosecutors who has been elected with money from George Soros linked radical leftist “Justice & Public Safety” political action committee. Gardner has drawn national attention with her decision to prosecute a St Louis couple for defending their home against an angry mob of Black Lives Matter agitators.The document obtained by 5 On Your Side (KDSK) show pressure was applied by Gardner's office to structure the police report, so as to alter the evidence to...

An undercover television news story to test security in local schools triggered a lockdown Thursday at Kirkwood High, angering parents and raising questions about media ethics.Students and teachers at the school were huddled in classrooms with the lights off for about 40 minutes Thursday afternoon after a man came into the school and asked to speak with security, then left.The visit was one of five made by the television station to schools in the region aimed at exposing lapses in school security.After hours of social media uproar, KSDK aired the news report at 10 p.m.During the segment, the station showed...

Jailed Priest Was Sued By Warren County Community 4/11/2002 12:55:58 PM(KSDK) -- NewsChannel 5 has learned former priest James Beine, currently in jail for allegedly exposing himself to students at a St. Louis public school, was sued by a Warren County community in the early 1990s. The Board of Trustees of Incline Village sued Beine to stop him from operating a religious or commercial operation. Residents say they were concerned for the teens that were part of the St. John Bosco Youth Group, which met in his basement. For the group's work in the “Adopt-A-Highway” program, Beine received a letter...