WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump is stepping back from comments he made over the weekend when he claimed to know nothing about former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Today, Trump tells NBC’s “Today” that he couldn’t clearly hear the questions posed by CNN host Jake Tapper because he was given a “very bad earpiece.”…
St. Louis County, MO  (KTRS)  A senior at Parkway Central High School earned a perfect score on the SAT college entrance exam. Sharanya Kumar achieved the highest possible score of 2,400. This a score typically accomplished by about 0.02 percent of those who take it. Kumar is applying to universities as an “undecided engineering” major. She…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Soldiers Memorial Military Museum in St. Louis is closed for a two-year renovation project. The Missouri Historical Society and St. Louis officials held a flag lowering ceremony Sunday to officially close the 80-year-old downtown museum. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1LOeDft ) the museum is undergoing a $30 million renovation designed…
( KTRS ) Recent Illinois gun sales are breaking state records. Illinois State Police did 418,000 background checks on firearm purchasers in 2015 compared with 162,000 a decade earlier. State background checks for December hit a record high for any month at 60,000. The state’s single-day record was broken on November 27th, Black Friday, when background…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Oscar night belonged to host Chris Rock, who launched immediately into the uproar over the lack of diversity in this year’s nominees, and he didn’t let up. Rock called the Oscars, “The White People’s Choice Awards.” In his much anticipated opening monologue, he asked “Is Hollywood racist? He said “Hollywood is…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – David Backes and Kyle Brodziak scored in the second period to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 5-2 victory over the short-handed Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday. Ty Rattie, Robby Fabbri and Alex Pietrangelo also scored for St. Louis, and Jake Allen stopped 32 shots. Jeff Skinner and Ron Hainsey each…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A measure to reverse the 2011 merger of Missouri’s highway and water patrols is being applauded by some local officials concerned about a drop-off in troopers on the state’s waterways. But it is strongly opposed by Gov. Jay Nixon. Republican Rep. Diane Franklin of Camdenton filed a bill last month…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina, with the overwhelming support of black voters powering the former secretary of state to a commanding victory over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are looking beyond the usual places for funding road and bridge repairs after they promised to make the issue a priority this session. In two weeks, House Republicans hope to send the Senate a budget that includes $30 million to revive the Missouri Department of Transportation’s cost-sharing system.…
