St. Louis, MO (KTRS) – The partial federal government shutdown is impacting the St. Louis area The Gateway Arch and the Old Courthouse are closed due to the shutdown. The partial shutdown will also have an impact on farmers, as the USDA will close local and state farm service centers across the United States.
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) The Major Case Squad is investigating after a body was found in an alley in downtown St. Charles. Investigators say a man’s body was discovered on N. 2nd Street and Franklin streets around 7:30 p.m Friday. There’s no word on how the man died. The victim’s name hasn’t been released.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will spend Christmas in Washington due to the partial government shutdown. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump’s wife, Melania, will fly back from Florida so they can spend the holiday together. Mrs. Trump and their 12-year-old son, Barron, flew down on Friday, hoping to keep the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is seeing a dramatic uptick in HIV diagnoses, a trend that is mostly concentrated in the central part of the state, according to health experts. New HIV diagnoses in Missouri increased by more than 10 percent between 2013 and 2016, which is the most recent state data available. But the…
By LISA MASCARO, MATTHEW DALY and ZEKE MILLER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A partial federal shutdowtook hold early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet President Donald Trump’s demands for $5 billion to start erecting his cherished Mexican border wall, a chaotic postscript for Republicans in the waning days of their two-year reign controlling…