COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man charged with posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus has changed his plea to guilty. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Park admitted Monday to making a terrorist threat. Authorities say the threats showed up Nov. 10 on the anonymous location-based messaging app Yik…
(KTRS) – The Environmental Protection Agency says there are options when it comes to dealing with radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. The Post-Dispatch reports that EPA representatives met with area residents to give an update on plans. Nearly a decade ago, the agency proposed placing a cap over the materials, but many residents…
CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) – A former Mississippi County Detention Center inmate has filed a lawsuit claiming she was abused while pregnant and that abuse caused her to miscarry in December 2014. The Southeast Missourian reports Mississippi County, former jail administrator Cory Hutcheson and six other detention center employees are named as defendants in Tara Rhodes’…
(KTRS) – Officials at Saint Louis University are looking into racial insensitive text messages sent by members of the baseball team. The messages are nearly a year old, but the university did not find out about them until earlier this month. One of the messages made racist comment about President Barack Obama. The players have…
The FBI relied on a third party because the work requires highly specialized resources that the agency doesn’t have readily available on its own
WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the Republican National Committee has told House GOP lawmakers that the rules governing the party’s presidential nominating convention will be made by that gathering’s delegates, not a small group of Republican leaders. That’s what House Republicans say Reince Priebus told them at a private session Tuesday at GOP national…
