VATICAN CITY (AP) – The papal spokesman is stressing that Pope Francis often says build bridges, not walls, and that his remark while flying back from Mexico wasn’t targeting U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Francis said Thursday that a person who advocates building walls for solutions is `’not Christian.” Trump, who has repeatedly called for…
The Friday ruling means the 18-year-old could face 120 days in jail, then finish his 10-year probation
Arnold, MO (KTRS) Senator Roy Blunt is seeking a second term. The Republican lawmaker officially announced his re-election campaign Friday morning at at Unico-SGI Manufacturing in Arnold, the first of a 10-stop, two-day tour across the state. Blunt’s office says the location was chosen because he helped save the business from what it calls “onerous…
(AP) – Harper Lee, the elusive author whose “To Kill a Mockingbird” became an enduring best-seller and classic film with its child’s-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, has died. She was 89. HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis confirmed the author’s death to The Associated Press on Friday. For most of her life, Lee…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two suspects are being sought after a woman and her three children were carjacked at gunpoint outside of a grocery store in the Central West End. Police say this happened at around 1 a.m. Friday in the parking lot of Schnucks in the 4100 block of Lindell. The woman was waiting…
( KTRS ) A University of Missouri official says about $2 million in donations have been lost in fallout from the Columbia campus unrest last fall. Simmering tensions came to a head in November protests over what student activists saw as administrators’ indifference to racial problems at the Columbia campus. Protesters were backed by some…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Jaden Schwartz scored 1:40 into overtime and Brian Elliott was sharp again in goal as the St. Louis Blues beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Thursday night. Robby Fabbri scored a power-play goal in the first period for St. Louis and Elliott made 34 of 35 saves as he improved…
( KTRS ) A former East St. Louis strip club bouncer who pleaded guilty to killing a man with his pickup truck is to return to court for sentencing. Thirty-three-year-old Reginald Allen of Dupo faces up to six years in prison Friday in St. Clair County. He was initially charged with reckless homicide in the…
