ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis missed out on nearly $17 million in revenue during the last fiscal year because of property tax breaks meant to stimulate development, according to a financial assessment by the city comptroller’s office. The annual report, which quantified the value of the tax breaks, discloses the value of commonly used…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID JEANS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A preschooler toying with the burners on his mother’s stove accidentally sparked New York City’s deadliest fire in decades, an inferno that quickly overtook an apartment building and blocked the main escape route, the fire commissioner said Friday. A dozen people died , and…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Due to the weather forecast of bitterly low temperatures and wind chill, Winterfest at the Arch will close for the season early Friday, Dec. 29, after the 2- 9 p.m. public skate session. Cold weather has forced Six Flags St. Louis to close early. It will not be open Saturday, Dec. 30, through…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count now stands at 205. This comes after a man was fatally shot at just after 10 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Dick Gregory. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. The last time St. Louis…
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Marie chafed at being a supporting player in the shadow of Mary Tyler Moore’s fetching suburban housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” But it was as feisty comedy writer Sally Rogers that Marie stretched the narrow confines of how women were portrayed on TV…
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending other residents scrambling outside into the cold and down fire escapes to safety. The dead included a…