( KTRS ) Missouri football players announced on Twitter over the weekend that they will not participate in team activities until the university president resigns, a move designed to join forces with a black graduate student who is holding a hunger strike. Jonathan Butler has not eaten since last Monday to protest the university’s handling…
( KTRS ) The St. Charles Police Department is investigating a drive-by shooting that happened Sunday night around 8pm in the 1600 block of Timberlane, near First Capitol Drive. AÂ police spokesperson said several shots were fired at the home, while a child was home alone. Police say the shots were fired from gold or silver…
GALATIA, Ill. (AP) – One of two mines in a southern Illinois community is expected to cease operations by the middle of next year. The Carbondale Southern Illinoisan reports Friday that it’s the American Coal Company’s New Era Mine that’ll close as it reaches the end of its reserves. The other mine in Galatia, New…
( KTRS ) A Mother has been accused of repeatedly poisoning her 9-year-old son for almost a year. Prosecutors in St. Louis County have charged 35-year-old Rachel Kinsella of Meadville with endangering the welfare of a child. Court documents allege investigators found that Kinsella surreptitiously was having her son treated at two hospitals, getting unspecified prescriptions…
CHICAGO (AP) — A new model for health care is intended to promote a shift toward a system where doctors treat people — rather than symptoms. This individualized approach is called “person-centered care” or “patient-centered care,” and is based on the concept that costs can be reined in by preventing expensive emergency room visits. It’s…
TROY, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man once sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife is free after being found not guilty in a retrial. Russell Faria was found not guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and armed criminal action Friday by Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer, of St. Louis, who heard the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri football players announced on Twitter that they will not participate in team activities until the university president resigns, a move designed to join forces with a black graduate student who is holding a hunger strike. The statement from the athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team was…
NEW YORK (AP) — Honda is recalling more than 25,000 cars in the U.S. to replace the rear grab rail brackets, which it says could interfere with the deployment of a side curtain air bag. The carmaker says no such instances have been reported and that it discovered the faulty design during internal testing. The…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe met with a graduate student who is staging a hunger strike at the Columbia campus. Wolfe met with Jonathan Butler and representatives of several student organizations Friday to discuss racism and other problems currently disrupting the university’s Columbia campus. Wolfe called Butler an important voice…
