Hancock and Kelley on FOX 2 St. Louis

We begin with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland taking note of violent crime in St. Louis and pledging to do something about it. ... The rise of the write-in candidates and the fall of right-wing school board candidates in Tuesday's local elections. ... We’re keeping up with former President Donald Trump's courtroom battles and a big endorsement in a key Missouri congressional race. ... Israel admits fault for a bombing that killed World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, as a rift between President Joe Biden and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets wider. ... Democrats go all-in on the abortion issue for the November elections. Can it turn red states like Missouri and Florida blue? ... Is independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. fanning the flames of the January 6 Capitol riot? It's our quote of the week.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Viral videos of violent, even deadly, after-school fights among teens in St. Louis County lead to calls for action from the state capital to the nation’s capital. ... A new bipartisan bill in the Missouri legislature would ban marriage for those under the age of 18. Currently, 16- and 17-year-olds can marry someone who’s also under 21 with parental consent. ... The City of St. Louis is leading an alarming population decline in the St. Louis region. Census estimates show the city has lost 20% of its population in the last 20 years—more than half of its population in the last 50 years. ... Riverfront Times founder and long-time Donnybrook panelist on KETC (PBS St. Louis) Ray Hartmann announces that he’s running for Congress as a Democrat against six-term St. Louis County Congresswoman Ann Wagner. Special Counsel Robert Hur testified before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, and Hur’s assertion that the president comes off as a “well-meaning, elderly man” with a poor memory. ... A Georgia judge rules that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can stay on as prosecutor in the Donald Trump election interference case, but Nathan Wade, Willis’s former lover, who she hired as special prosecutor in the case, must resign his position. ... Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo hands out free Plan B emergency contraception (aka “morning after” pills) at her concert at Enterprise Center in St. Louis. It drew international backlash, with her core audience being made up of young girls. Plan B will no longer be handed out at her concerts. ... Our Quote of the Week was from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who’s proposing a national four-day week in the United States. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A call for retired cops to help St. Louis out of its reckless driving epidemic. ... Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a self-proclaimed "mega" Kansas City Chiefs fan, is receiving backlash after pardoning the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. The coach's son, Britt Reid, was drunk and speeding when he crashed into multiple cars on an Interstate 435 ramp near Arrowhead Stadium in 2021, which left 5-year-old Ariel Young with traumatic brain injury. Reid was sentenced to three years in prison in 2022. Parson commuted the rest of his sentence to house arrest after just 16 months. Republicans and Democrats are blasting the governor over this. He's offered deepest sympathy to Young's family but said Reid has already served more time than others convicted of similar offenses. ... Are Democrats fired up after President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address? Critics claim the speech was more appropriate for a campaign rally, with President Biden repeatedly blasting former President Donald Trump without ever naming him and instead referring to him as his predecessor. Though Biden struggled with words at times, he avoided any major gaffes, and displayed passion, wit, and stamina in the nearly 70-minute speech. ... Amid all of the accolades from Democrats for the president’s State of the Union performance comes a challenge from Trump, to see how Biden holds up in a debate.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A FOX 2 New interview with a St. Louis alderwoman about the city’s reckless driving crisis is interrupted by blatant reckless driving: motorcyclists doing wheelies, running a red light, driving on the wrong side the road and circling cars waiting for the light to change. Alderwoman Cara Spencer is calling for booting the wheels of reckless drivers. The mayor and aldermanic president want to bring back red-light cameras, which would put citations in the mail for offenders, tickets offenders will likely be ignored, knowing they face no threat of jail time. ...   Missouri Governor Mike Parson sends Missouri National Guardsmen and state highway patrol troopers to help with the border crisis in Texas, just as the crisis shifts to California. ...   Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker calls for nearly $900 million in tax hikes to help cover the cost of processing more than 35,000 migrants who’ve crossed the southern U.S. border and are now flooding the sanctuary city of Chicago. ...   Republican Congressman Mike Bost, who represents a large portion of the St. Louis area in Illinois, agrees with President Joe Biden on something. He says Congress should be in session instead of taking a two-week winter break with pressing issues like the border crisis and military aid for Ukraine and Israel demanding action. ...   Former President Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina in a landslide over former S.C. Governor Nikki Haley in her home state.   Missouri Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who is running for governor, creates a stir by saying military veterans should not get special treatment like discounts. "I don't think we ought to say if you're in the military, we'll give you this discount, but everybody else has to pay twice as much,” he said. “If it's good for veterans, it's good to do it for everyone." ... The Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos in fertility clinics are human children. ...   Our Quote of the Week was from Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who said Governor Parson’s use of the word “thugs” to describe the suspects in the deadly mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade/rally was a racist dog whistle. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

St. Louis City’s reckless driving crisis claims the lives of two visitors from Chicago after they attended a concert downtown. It comes a year of a teenage girl visiting from Tennessee lost her legs in a reckless driving crash. She was hit by a vehicle while walking downtown. Instead of addressing the glaring lack of enforcement of traffic laws, Mayor Tishaura Jones calls out the Board of Aldermen for stalling her plan for street safety improvements. ...   Republicans and Democrats in the Missouri Legislature back Valentine’s Law, which would enact mandatory prison time for those knowingly fleeing police in a vehicle. It is named for St. Louis County Police Detective Tony Valentine who was killed by a fleeing driver in 2021. ...   Missouri Senate Democrats filibuster initiative petition reform at the state capitol. Reform measures aim to make it more difficult to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. ...   Democrat St. Louis Congresswoman Cori Bush lashes out at Republicans for Missouri’s lax gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade and rally, even though Kansas City and St. Louis have laws making it illegal for juveniles to carry weapons. Twenty-two people were shot and a woman was killed in what authorities say was an exchange of gunfire among juveniles. ...   President Biden blasts Russian President Vladmir Putin over the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison. Navalny had been poisoned and jailed after leading protests against Putin and the Kremlin. President Biden also called out former President Donald Trump for saying he would not protect NATO allies from invasion by Putin and Russia if those allies fail to pay their fair share toward mutual defense. ...   A New York judge levied a $364 million judgement against Donald Trump and his family’s businesses in a civil business fraud trial. ...   Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand and admitted hiring her lover as a special prosecutor in an election fraud case against Donald Trump. Attorneys for one of Mr. Trump’s co-defendants are seeking to have Willis removed from the case and possibly the entire case thrown out of court. ...   Our Quote of the Week was from Cardinals pitcher Matthew Liberatore, as the team reports to Jupiter, Florida, for spring training. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.