CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has named a state economist as the head of his office of management and budget. A late Friday statement from Rauner’s office says Hans Zigmund will take over the job on Jan. 15. He’s replacing Scott Harry, who is taking a position with the Illinois State Board of…
CAIRO (AP) — President Donald Trump is condemning an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt Friday. The White House says Trump spoke with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi after the attack by a gunman in Helwan killed at least eight members of Egypt’s long-suffering minority community as well as a police officer. Trump “condemned the attack…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis missed out on nearly $17 million in revenue during the last fiscal year because of property tax breaks meant to stimulate development, according to a financial assessment by the city comptroller’s office. The annual report, which quantified the value of the tax breaks, discloses the value of commonly used…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID JEANS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A preschooler toying with the burners on his mother’s stove accidentally sparked New York City’s deadliest fire in decades, an inferno that quickly overtook an apartment building and blocked the main escape route, the fire commissioner said Friday. A dozen people died , and…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Due to the weather forecast of bitterly low temperatures and wind chill, Winterfest at the Arch will close for the season early Friday, Dec. 29, after the 2- 9 p.m. public skate session. Cold weather has forced Six Flags St. Louis to close early. It will not be open Saturday, Dec. 30, through…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count now stands at 205. This comes after a man was fatally shot at just after 10 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Dick Gregory. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. The last time St. Louis…
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Marie chafed at being a supporting player in the shadow of Mary Tyler Moore’s fetching suburban housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” But it was as feisty comedy writer Sally Rogers that Marie stretched the narrow confines of how women were portrayed on TV…
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending other residents scrambling outside into the cold and down fire escapes to safety. The dead included a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has a new leader. During a Thursday afternoon press conference, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards announced that Police Commissioner John Hayden has been appointed as the city’s next police chief. “John Hayden has served St. Louis with…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) A $10,000 reward is being offered to captured the so-called ‘Left Handed Bandit’ in Tuesday’s bank heist at Great Southern Bank in Ferguson. Investigators say the male suspect used an assault rifle to hold up the bank along the 10000 block of West Florissant Road. He made off with an undisclosed amount of…