JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State Auditor Nicole Galloway has released an audit criticizing the Missouri Department of Conservation for paying out more than $120,000 to a former director. Robert Ziehmer received money and benefits for months after he left the state agency for the private sector that appeared to be unnecessary and costly, according…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) District 78 Democratic State Representative Bruce Franks is speaking out in response to Tuesday’s ribbon cutting for the new Gateway Arch Park. He hosted an all-inclusive ribbon cutting Friday afternoon, featuring Susan Saarinen – daughter of Gateway Arch Architect, Eero Saarinen. Saarinen stated that her father, “wanted to create a beautiful…
BY JOSH BOAK , AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers in the United States are thought to have kept up their brisk pace of hiring in June, reflecting the durability of the second-longest U.S. economic expansion on record even in the face of a trade war with China. Economists have estimated that 195,000 jobs…
Brooklyn, IL (KTRS) An investigation is underway after an unknown substance sent six people at Roxy’s nightclub to the hospital. Emergency crews were called to the Brooklyn nightclub early Friday morning after four people appeared to be suffered from a drug overdose. Two first responders came also had to be taken to the hospital after coming…
By BLAKE NELSON , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — No government officials conducted a safety inspection of a new waterslide at Six Flags St. Louis before a woman said she suffered whiplash last month from the force of the “Typhoon Twister” that featured a five-story drop and a “45-foot zero gravity wave wall.”…
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA , Associated Press MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Authorities overseeing the rescue operation for 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand said they have a “limited amount of time” to get them out, as they raced against worsening weather and lessening oxygen underground.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Zoo is home to a critically-endangered mongoose lemur baby named Princess Buttercup, and Thursday she made her public debut. When asked about Thursday’s visitors, Victor Alm, Zoological Manager of the Primate Unit stated, “They’ve been very excited, I mean, how can you not be excited about a story…
JEFFERSON CITY (KTRS) Thanks to the federal tax cuts, Ameren Missouri customers are going to see an average six-dollar-21 cent cut in their electric bill, beginning August first. The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved an agreement for the rate decrease that’s the result of the cut in the corporate tax rate in the federal tax…
MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — At a gilded temple in Thailand’s mountainous north, Ekapol Chanthawong honed a skill that will serve him well as he sits trapped underground in a dark cave: meditation. Before the 25-year-old was a coach to the young boys on the Wild Boars soccer team — 12 of whom are trapped…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court nomination (all times local): 11:10 a.m. A key GOP senator is warning President Donald Trump not to repeat “mistakes” of past Republican presidents by picking a Supreme Court nominee who turns out to be insufficiently conservative. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas says…