HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — Mark Twain’s 180th birthday is being celebrated this weekend in his boyhood hometown. The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that a mustache competition and a masquerade mask art show are among the activities planned for Saturday at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. The attraction is located in the northeast Missouri town…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The New Life Evangelistic Center is displaying a new piece of artwork. A dedication ceremony was held on Thanksgiving Day of a statute of Jesus sleeping on a bench. This life size statue was created by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. Prior to the ceremony, 250 volunteers served a Thanksgiving Dinner to…
Festus, MO (KTRS) Administrators of a thrift store in Jefferson County are trying to reunite someone with $1200 in cash that is believed to have been accidentally included in some donated items. The money was discovered at the Mers/Goodwill in Festus on November 17th. Store officials say it was likely among items dropped off two…
Belleville, MO (KTRS) The rain is to blame for canceling the Santa Parade in Belleville today. However, Santa Clause will still arrive in Belleville and visit with children at Santa’s House starting at 1 p.m. The Sing-A-Long and “lighting of the fountain” will also still go on as scheduled, but from inside the white tent…
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (AP) – Fort Leonard Wood has dished out more than 5 tons of turkey for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The south-central Missouri installation said in a news release that it celebrated the holiday with a traditional meal served in 10 on-post dining facilities. Besides the turkey, the fort served 1,000 pounds…
MARION, Ill. (AP) – The body of a missing 22-year-old Murphysboro woman has been found by hunters in a southern Illinois national wildlife refuge. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office says that Jeannie Schuur’s body was found Thursday on land in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. Family members reported her missing on Monday after she…
CHICAGO (AP) – Protests over the videotaped fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer are set to move to the heart of the city’s famed retail district on the busiest shopping day of the year. A protest march down part of Michigan Avenue called the Magnificent Mile is planned for…
( KTRS ) Arrests for drunken boating on Missouri waterways have fallen by 63 percent since the Missouri State Water Patrol merged with the Highway Patrol. State records show that arrests for boating while intoxicated fell from 352 in 2010, the last year before the merger, to 131 in 2014. So far this year, the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri hunters are killing more deer after restrictions were lifted in some areas to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease. The Columbia Missourian (http://bit.ly/1NeRPtj ) reports that nearly 190,000 deer were killed during the first phase of the Missouri firearms season, which ended Tuesday. Missouri officials say that’s up 14.1…
( KTRS ) Thousands turned out in St. Louis for the return of the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. The parade was cancelled last year amid protests and widespread arrests over Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson and other fatal police shootings. The 2014 parade was scheduled several days after a St. Louis County grand jury decided…