WASHINGTON (AP) — New Speaker Paul Ryan promised a fresh start for the House. But it’s looking like business as usual as lawmakers wrap up a year-end spending bill that pays for Planned Parenthood, the president’s health care law and other Obama administration priorities. Last-stage negotiations are taking in private and at the highest levels,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Planned Parenthood branch is refusing to give records related to abortions to the Republican-led state Senate. Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri told The Associated Press Friday it won’t provide a Senate committee with abortion procedure documents. A Planned Parenthood lawyer in a letter…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis homicide detectives are investigating after two people were shot on the parking lot of a community center on the city’s north side. The shooting happened Friday afternoon during a memorial service at New Northside Conference Center. Police spokeswoman Schron Jackson says one of victims died and the other was…
(KTRS) – The Missouri Senator behind a bill that imposed a 72-hour waiting people before a woman can get an abortion, is proposing new restrictions on the procedure. State Senator David Sater is proposing a bill that would prevent abortions solely because a test indicated the baby has or could develop Down syndrome. His bill…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking public records in Missouri on behalf of the research director for the group Show-Me Cannabis. The News Tribune reports that the lawsuit was filed Wednesday on behalf of Aaron Malin against Cole County prosecutor Mark Richardson. Malin asked Richardson’s office…
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Democrats have dropped a New Hampshire television station as a debate sponsor over an ongoing disagreement between union workers and management. The Democratic National Committee and the New Hampshire Democratic Party said Friday they will not include WMUR-TV as a sponsor of the Dec. 19 debate because the station’s parent company,…
NEW YORK (AP) – About a dozen protestors have stormed a $1,000-a-plate New York City luncheon where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was delivering a speech. Four protestors crashed the lunch Friday through the side stairs at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. They were forced out by hotel security staff as they chanted: “Trump is…
INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) – A black granite slab now marks the gravesite of B.B. King, the blues icon who died nearly seven months ago in Las Vegas but was returned for burial in his native Mississippi. Family, friends and fans gathered Friday to dedicate the stone, engraved with King’s signature, that will become the centerpiece…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission are being recognized. During a ceremony Thursday night at the Forest Park Visitor Center, Rich MCClure and Reverend Starsky Wilson were presented with the prestigious 2015 St. Louis Award for their leadership roles with the Ferguson Commission. McClure and Wilson were selected as result of…
