By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) — A contentious 40-day strike that crippled General Motors’ U.S. production came to an end Friday as workers approved a new contract with the company. The four-year deal will now be used as a template in bargaining with crosstown rival Ford Motor Co., the union’s…
Update: St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Police say 29-year-old Ronnie McCutchen was found unharmed. Earlier Story: St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing south St. Louis County man. Twenty-nine-year-old Ronnie McCutchen went missing on Thursday. He was last seen driving a Maroon 2001 Dodge Durango bearing Missouri plates…
Wentzville, MO (KTRS) The strike against General Motors could be coming to an end. UAW workers at the Wentzville Plant overwhelmingly approved the contract proposal. However, voting continues Friday at other GM plants in the country. The nationwide tally will determine whether or not the strike will continue. The official tally is expected later Friday afternoon…
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — Punishing Santa Ana winds that pushed fires into Los Angeles-area neighborhoods, burning six homes, were expected to last through Friday and could prompt more power shutoffs to hundreds of thousands of people. The wind-whipped blazes broke out Thursday in the Santa Clarita area and the largest remained uncontained. As many…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A St. Louis University student in her early 20s is hospitalized in critical condition with what police now call “undetermined injuries” suffered near the central St. Louis campus. University officials have confirmed that the woman who was injured about 9:45 a.m. Thursday is a student. Her name has not been…