KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say six people have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an investigation into a massive software piracy scheme that began in Kansas City and involved $100 million worth of illegitimate software. Tammy Dickinson, U.S. attorney for the western district of Missouri, said Thursday the case is among the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Seven months after the man known as the “Rose Man” was killed in a hit-and-run accident, a St. Louis man is charged in the crime. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that first-degree involuntary manslaughter charges were filed Wednesday against Antonio Cooper. He is jailed on $150,000 cash-only bond and does not…
(KTRS) – The trial of Sunset Hills Mayor Mark Furrer is over after a judge declared a mistrial today. Furrer was accused of intentionally hitting a bicyclist with his car last year. Furrer told the jury he never his the cyclist, Randy Murdick. The Post-Dispatch reports the trial headed toward a mistrial after lawyers started…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the process of normalizing relations with Cuba will take time, but there’s progress already. Obama is marking the one-year anniversary of the announcement by the United States and Cuba of plans to restore relations. Obama says both countries have taken important steps in that year to normalize relations.…
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire’s secretary of state has scheduled the first-in-the-nation presidential primary for Feb. 9, 2016, a move that had been widely expected given the lack of pressure from other states. Other states in past years have jockeyed to move their primaries and caucuses earlier in hopes of grabbing some of the…
NEW YORK (AP) – Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager vilified in nearly every corner of America for buying a pharmaceutical company and jacking up the price of a life-saving drug more than fiftyfold, was arrested Thursday on securities fraud charges unrelated to the furor. The boyish-looking 32-year-old entrepreneur – a relentlessly self-promoting figure…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama legislator has asked the governor to remove the Confederate flag from the uniforms of state troopers. The uniforms include Alabama’s coat of arms: A shield with the Confederate battle flag and the flags of Great Britain, France, Spain and the United States – the four nations that have held…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Seven months after the man known as the “Rose Man” was killed in a hit-and-run accident, a suspect is facing charges. Antonio Cooper was charged Wednesday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the death of 64-year-old Jerrel Nixon. Police say Cooper was speeding just before midnight on May 17 when he ran a red…
