COLUMBIA, MO. (AP) The University of Missouri in Columbia is seeing the negative effects of budget cuts and declining enrollment. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the university is expecting its smallest incoming freshman class in nearly two decades this fall, with as much as a 6 percent decline compared to last year. Local landlords are also offering…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) About 2000 new jobs will be created at Boeing’s St. Louis defense plant if it wins a military contract for its new training jet. Boeing today unveiled its T-X Air Force training jet, and is now vying for a $16-billion government contract to make more. The T-X replaces the fleet of…
Virginia Hanlon Grohl never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first time, she knew that rock stardom was meant to be for her son.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been under scrutiny lately for several alarming and mysterious deaths lately, of both Pro-Putin and Anti-Putin activists and high-ranking government workers. Be it from poisoning, falling out of windows, mysterious heart attacks, or good old-fashioned getting shot in the back, many deaths lately have been seen as cover-ups by the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – John Danforth, a former Missouri attorney general, U.S. senator and ambassador to the United Nations, is the latest recipient of the Winston Churchill Leadership Medal. The award, announced Monday, is from the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The 45th Annual Great Forest Park Balloon Race and Balloon Glow is being moved to Art Hill in Forest Park this year. Organizers say the change in venue is due to the renovations to Central Fields in Forest Park. The event is scheduled for September 15-16. “Forest Park in St.…
Cuonzo Martin Adds to Already Topflight Group
