Wash U: Emergency Alert Issued As A Precaution

St. Louis, MO (KTRS)  An emergency alert was issued briefly Wednesday morning on the campus of Washington University. University officials say the alert issued at 9:36 a.m. was done so  as an extra precaution after a report of an incident involving gunfire in the vicinity of the university’s North Campus. The Washington University and St.…

Trump says reporter could have had a knife

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the reporter who is behind misdemeanor battery charges against his campaign manager “shouldn’t have been grabbing me.” Trump defended campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Fox News Wednesday, a day after Florida police charged him following an incident earlier this month in which Lewandowski pulled the reporter,…

Prosecutors Won’t Retry Blagojevich On Five Tossed Counts

Chicago, IL  (KTRS)  Prosecutors  won’t retry former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on the five counts tossed by a federal appeals court and have requested a resentencing date. Federal prosecutors made the filing on Wednesday. This comes two days after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Blagojevich’s appeal of his remaining corruption convictions. Those convictions…