ST. LOUIS (AP) – Hundreds of people who were illegally jailed in a St. Louis suburb are eligible to share in a lawsuit settlement, but with the deadline approaching, most of them have not come forward. Officials with the non-profit law firm ArchCity Defenders and other advocates for minorities and the poor said at a…
NEW YORK (AP) – PBS says Gwen Ifill, the veteran journalist and co-anchor of the network’s “NewsHour” with Judy Woodruff, died today of cancer. She was 61. A former newspaper reporter, Ifill switched to television and worked for NBC News and PBS. She moderated two vice presidential debates. She took a leave from her nightly…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – University of Missouri officials say that average attendance at home football games this season will be the lowest since 2002, barring an unexpected rebound for the last two games. Associate athletic director Chad Moller says the attendance has suffered because of a lack of winning. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that…
Hear Max’s interview with Michael Stuhlbarg, of The Coen Brother’s A Serious Man, Marvel’s Dr. Strange, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and the great new sci-fi film Arrival.
Max reviews Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve, and starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, and Michael Stuhlbarg.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) – A military judge is delaying the trial of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Army Col. Jeffery Nance decided to push the trial back to May 2017 during a pretrial hearing Monday at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The trial had been scheduled…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Three St. Louis-area school districts say they will end out-of-school suspensions for preschool students through third-grade students in the next two years. That announcement from the school districts of Ladue, Normandy, and Maplewood-Richmond Heights made at an assemblyon Sunday for the Break the Pipeline campaign, an effort spearheaded by Metropolitan Congregations…
Marlon West, graduate of University City High School, joined Martin and Randi to talk about his career working for Disney as an animator. He has worked on movies such as The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Princess and the Frog and Frozen.
Former Iran Hostage, Rocky Sickmann, joined Martin and Randi to talk about that experience and his work now with Folds of Honor.
