St. Louis’ Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade Is Back After Being Cancelled Last Year
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis’ annual Thanksgiving Day parade is back. Last year’s parade was canceled due to the area’s civil unrest. The The 2015 Ameren Missouri Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to kick off Thursday at 8:45 a.m. at 7th and Market streets in downtown St. Louis. The parade is in its 31st…
Stedman Bailey Recovering After Being Shot In Florida
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Rams’ wide receiver Stedman Bailey is scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday after being shot. The NFL reports that Bailey was shot in Miami Gardens, Florida Tuesday night while sitting in a car with family. According to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport, someone pulled up and started shooting, per a source informed…
Bridge connecting St. Louis, East St. Louis set to reopen.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – The Martin Luther King Bridge connecting East St. Louis to St. Louis is set to reopen after being closed for construction. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the bridge crossing the Mississippi River is scheduled to reopen to traffic the week of Dec. 21. The bridge has been closed since…
Collinsville officials approve residential chicken ordinance
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Officials in a southwest Illinois community have decided to allow up to 75 residents to keep chickens within city limits. The Collinsville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve an ordinance allowing chickens in residential districts. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that the Collinsville Planning Commission and Mayor John Miller initially…
The Latest: Protesters march, confront police in Chicago
( KTRS ) A small crowd of protesters is snaking through streets near Chicago’s downtown early Wednesday. The demonstrations started hours earlier after police released a dash-cam video showing the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer. The officer was charged with murder Tuesday. The protesters tried to block traffic on…
Lawsuit seeks to restore parental rights in lost baby case
( KTRS ) Fifty years after a gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth and months after the woman learned her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins says Melanie Gilmore seeks to invalidate her 1983 adoption and re-establish…