COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Movie director Spike Lee visits the University of Missouri campus to work on an ESPN documentary about the football team’s threatened boycott last fall. The Columbia Daily Tribune (bit.ly/1TFS1pS) reports Lee was in town on Saturday night to attend a screening of the student-made documentary “Concerned Student 1950 at the True/False…
( KTRS ) Missouri Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster says the state should not require police to wear body cameras. Koster says he wants to see more police use body cameras, but he would hesitate to institute a statewide mandate for them, adding that the decision should be left to local governments…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Law enforcement, health care, insurance and transportation groups are urging Missouri lawmakers to ban texting while driving. A House panel heard testimony Monday on three bills that would make it an infraction for a driver to read or send text messages on the road. Missouri currently bans people younger than 22…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump is attacking Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on his home turf in a new television advertisement, the Trump campaign says. A minute-long version of the Trump ad concludes, “Marco Rubio: Another corrupt, all-talk, no-action politician.” The new commercial is airing as Rubio, the state’s freshman senator, is expected to arrive in…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Senate leaders have decided to delay moving the news media off the chamber floor because of cost concerns. Senators had voted earlier this year to remove reporters from their longtime seats near the dais effective March 29. Media members were to instead work from a renovated section of a…
(KTRS) – The Ferguson City Council may reconsider a proposed settlement with the Department of Justice this week. Late Friday, the city got a letter from the DOJ that promised that any overhaul to the police force and municipal court would not create an unmanageable financial burden. In a statement today, Mayor James Knowles III…
(KTRS) – The Major Case Squad is helping with the investigation into the death of a 3-year-old girl in the Barnhart area. Investigators say that the girl’s mother found her body and called police around 6:30 AM on Monday. Authorities say there were obvious signs of trauma to the body, but the girl was not…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Efforts continue to keep the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St. Louis. Mayor Francis Slay was joined by state and federal leaders during a Monday morning news conference, where he announced an offer to make the proposed north St. Louis site more appealing. “On Friday, I told National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo…
CHICAGO (AP) – The Illinois attorney general’s office received more than 25,000 complaints from consumers in 2015. Here’s a look at the top categories and the number of complaints. 1. Consumer Debt (mortgages, collection agencies, banks) 3,350 2. Identity Theft (government document fraud, credit cards, utilities, data breaches) 2,636 3. Telecommunications (telemarketing, cable and satellite…