St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis area youth counselor is accused of sexual abusing a child. Twenty-year-old William “Billy” Hogenmiller has been charged with first-degree rape for the alleged assault on a child last week. Hogenmiller has worked at a youth-serving organization as a counselor, and an organization that provides respite care to adults…
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…
