By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and BRIAN MELLEY , Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Los Angeles man upset about The Boston Globe’s coordinated editorial response to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the news media was arrested Thursday for threatening to kill the newspaper’s journalists, whom he called the “enemy of the people,” federal prosecutors said.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright racial balancing” and sided with Asian-American students who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard denied the bias claim and said it would defend the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-based electric utility Ameren Missouri says it’s setting aside $5 million to help low-income customers with energy bills. Ameren on Thursday announced about $1 million of that will go to groups including the United Way and Heat-Up Missouri to help those hit by high summer temperatures this year. Another…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday appointed a local school board president and a former technical college president to the state’s once-embattled K-12 education board, bringing it close to fully staffed. Seven of eight seats on the State Board of Education now are filled, a step forward after a standoff…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat in a decidedly Republican state, is seizing on an issue that she believes resonates in even the most conservative corners of the state — the financial future of the lowest wage earners. The two-term incumbent campaigned Thursday in St. Louis, where she celebrated the…
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois will use the $108 million it got from the government’s Volkswagen emissions scandal settlement to improve air quality, mostly by replacing old diesel engines with more environmentally friendly options. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen reached a series of settlements in 2016 and 2017 to resolve U.S. complaints. The complaints…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday appointed a local school board president and a former technical college president to the state’s once-embattled K-12 education board, bringing it close to fully staffed. Seven of eight seats on the State Board of Education now are filled, a step…
By MELISSA DANIELS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI , Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Sen. John McCain was eulogized as a “true American hero” — and a terrible driver with a wicked sense of humor and love of a good fight — at a crowded church service for the maverick politician Thursday that ended with the playing…
Berkeley, MO (KTRS) Two Berkeley Police officers were taken to the hospital after being injured while responding to an incident early this morning. Authorities say this occurred in an area of the Madelaine Manor Walk apartments. The officers’ injuries are not said to be life threatening. Police still have not released details on the circumstances…
O’Fallon, IL (KTRS) Three suspects are in custody following a police chase in the metro-east early Thursday morning. Police say this stemmed from a car break in on Liberty Crossing in O’Fallon, Illinois. The chase ended when the car crashed into a utility pole on Route 111 and Horseshoe Lake Road. Two of the suspects got…