JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s K-12 public schools would get about a $76 million increase in basic funding under the budget proposed by a House panel. A House committee on Thursday scaled back a recommendation by Gov. Jay Nixon to increase funding by about $85 million. Recommendations from both Nixon and the House panel…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A film crew is turning the 2003 killing of a Columbia man into an episode for a true-crime cable TV series. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the crew began work this week on an episode about the 2003 killing of James Pruitt for the show “Snapped” on the Oxygen Network.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis firefighters are credited with rescuing two children from a burning apartment Thursday afternoon. Authorities say the boys, ages 2 and 4, weren’t breathing when they were rescued from the apartment in the 800 block of Clara Avenue in north St. Louis. EMS crews were able to revive the children…
