Customers in Missouri financially impacted by the coronavirus pandemic may qualify for assistance ST. LOUIS (March 29, 2021) — Assistance is available for Spire Missouri residential customers who need help paying their outstanding rent and utility bills because of the coronavirus pandemic. Through the State Assistance for Housing Relief (SAFHR) program, renters across Missouri can receive…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd went on trial Monday, with a prosecutor telling the jury that Floyd was under Derek Chauvin’s knee for 9 minutes and 29 seconds before going limp. Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell told jurors that Chauvin “didn’t let up, he didn’t get up” even after…
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Salvage teams have finally freed a colossal container ship that has been stuck sideways in the Suez Canal for nearly a week. The work ends a crisis that clogged one of the world’s most vital waterways. A flotilla of tugboats finally freed the bow of the skyscraper-sized Ever Given, from the…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been charged with trying to become a pimp for someone he believed was a woman who would work as his prostitute. Prosecutors charged Eric Niles, 36, of Columbia, Missouri, earlier this month with one count of attempted sex trafficking in the case. Authorities say Niles wanted to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jurors began deliberations Friday in the federal trial for three white St. Louis police officers accused of beating a Black undercover colleague whom prosecutors said they mistook for a protestor. Dustin Boone, Steven Korte and Christopher Myers are all charged with deprivation of rights under color of law connected to the…
DALLAS (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning Texas author Larry McMurtry has died at the age of 84. McMurtry penned almost 50 books and dozens of screenplays during a career that spanned over half a century, often depicting the American West. He won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for “Lonesome Dove,” the tale of a cattle drive during…
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Authorities and a gun store owner say the suspect in the Colorado supermarket shooting bought a firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check. Boulder’s police chief told reporters Friday that the suspect also had a second weapon with him that he didn’t use in the attack that…
15-year-old Kenniyah McCain was found safe and the Missouri State Highway Patrol has cancelled the Amber Alert. Authorities are still searching for the suspects and their vehicle.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A legislative attempt to put checks on local Missouri health officials’ powers during emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic has failed. Senators voted 19-11 against the proposal Thursday. Some Republicans joined the Democratic minority to defeat the bill. The measure is in response to actions by St. Louis-area health officials to shut…
ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Dredgers, tugboats and even a backhoe have failed to free a giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal as the number of stacked-up vessels unable to pass through the vital waterway climbed to 150 and losses to global shipping mounted. Even with the aid of high tides, authorities have been…