Former Sen. John Danforth says the effort by Sen. Josh Hawley and others to challenge Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory is a “radical” and “highly destructive attack.” The written statement from the 84-year-old three-term Republican senator was especially stinging since Danforth has long been a supporter of Hawley. Danforth publicly backed Hawley’s successful runs for…
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 2020 at more record highs Thursday, closing out one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% and ended the year up 16%, or roughly 18% including dividends. 2020 saw a breathtaking nosedive in markets in the spring as the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shut the door on President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks. The Republican leader says Congress has provided enough pandemic aid and he’s blocked another attempt by Democrats to force a vote. McConnell is unwilling to budge, despite political pressure from Trump and even…
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart apologized Wednesday for a tweet that called Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley a sore loser for contesting President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. The now deleted tweet, “Go ahead. Get your 2 hour debate. #soreloser,” was mistakenly sent by a member of Walmart’s social media team who…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis County is allowing restaurants and bars to resume limited indoor dining starting Monday after shutting it down last month to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The establishments must close by 10 p.m. and capacity will be limited to 25-percent under the reopening plan that County Executive Sam Page…
DENVER (AP) — The new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has set off alarm in Britain has been reported for the first time in the U.S., in a Colorado man who hadn’t been traveling. That is triggering a host of questions about how it got here and adding urgency to the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whether most Americans will receive $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks is now in the hands of the Senate. President Donald Trump has been pushing to more than triple the $600 payments approved by Congress, reluctantly signing into law the massive relief bill that authorized the smaller checks. On Tuesday, two Georgia Republican senators,…
KTRS News received the following from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department . See photos below. Detectives need assistance identifying/locating the attached suspect vehicle relative to an incident wherein the catalytic converter was stolen off a bus at 4:05 a.m. on 12/28/20 at Dobbs (715 S. Broadway). The suspect vehicle is believed to be a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal officials now turn to exploring the monumental task of piecing together the motive behind the Christmas Day explosion that severely damaged dozens of downtown Nashville buildings and injured three. Officials have named 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner as the man behind the mysterious explosion in which he was killed, but the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The Missouri State Highway Patrol is reporting 175 crashes statewide over the 78-hour holiday counting period and 62 arrests for DWI. Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, reports five people died in traffic crashes during the period, which began at 6 p.m. Thursday, December 24, 2020,…