Washington D.C. (AP) The Trump administration is making ever louder pronouncements casting blame on China for the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to sidestep domestic criticism of the president’s own response, tarnish China’s global reputation and give the U.S. leverage on trade and other aspects of U.S.-China competition. President Donald Trump has vowed to penalize China for…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police need your help identifying the suspect in this weekends’ homicide in the North Riverfront neighborhood. According to police, officers responded to a shooting call in the 700 block of Ponce Avenue shortly after 3 P.M. Sunday afternoon and found 25-year-old Jerome Guest of the 5300 block of Kingshighway suffering from…
NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of J.Crew is filing for bankruptcy protection, the first major retailer to do so since the pandemic forced the closing of most stores in the United States. More retail bankruptcies are expected in coming weeks with the doors of thousands of stores still locked. March sales at stores and…
(KTRS) St. Louis Police detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects in a theft at the Aldon Condominiums on April 30, 2020 Officers responded to a call for a “Burglary” after the suspects entered the building, took property and then fled the scene. The investigation is ongoing. We have posted the…
Hvammstangi, Iceland (AP) — High schools, hair salons, dentists and other businesses across Iceland are reopening after six weeks of lockdown, after this North Atlantic nation managed to tame its coronavirus outbreak. Iceland has confirmed 1,799 cases of the virus, but just 10 people have died. The number of new COVID-19 cases each day has…
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) An East St. Louis man is charged with first-degree murder in a metro-east homicide. According to the Illinois State Police, 25-year-old Ormond Mosley has been arrested on multiple charges related to last months’ shooting death of 26-year-old Cornelius Jones. The incident occurred on April 25th in the parking lot of…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 300 workers at a northwestern Missouri pork processing plant have now tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest of several meat plants around the country to see huge spikes in confirmed cases of the virus. Missouri’s health department oversaw testing this week of more than 2,300 asymptomatic workers at the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is denying a former staffer’s allegation of sexual assault, saying it “never, never happened.” Biden’s first public comment on the allegation came during an interview Friday on MSNBC’s ”Morning Joe.” Former staffer Tara Reade says Biden assaulted her during the 1990s and that she filed a complaint in 1993. Biden…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature is taking up a new redistricting plan once again. A House committee on Thursday advanced the proposal. The measure would ask voters yet again to change state redistricting rules. Missourians in 2018 voted to make “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” top criteria in drawing state House and Senate…
Washington D.C. (AP) — What was the source of the coronavirus? President Donald Trump is speculating that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake.” And his intelligence agencies say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may…