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…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Efforts are being made to protect the homeless from the dangerous cold. Winter outreach and shelter operations are in effect for the City of St. Louis. Due to the anticipated below freezing temperatures these operations will remain through at least New Year’s Day. Individuals or families seeking shelter should please contact the…
By ILAN BEN ZION, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, Christians and muslims — and ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz’s plan, currently in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican gains and protests that erupted after a white officer’s acquittal in a black suspect’s shooting death were among the top 10 stories in Missouri in 2017. The full list is: RACE ISSUES DOMINATE AFTER OFFICER’S AQUITTAL IN ST. LOUIS POLICE SHOOTING The acquittal of a white police office in…
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three young brothers were killed and their mother and five people in another vehicle were injured in a three-vehicle crash in southwest Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the mother was driving her boys over a narrow highway bridge southeast of Joplin Tuesday night when her SUV collided…
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Freezing temperatures and below-zero wind chills socked much of the northern United States on Wednesday, and the snow-hardened city of Erie, Pennsylvania, dug out from a record snowfall. A storm brought 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day to Erie, an all-time daily snowfall record for the Great Lakes city, and…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Five people died on Missouri roads and highways over the Christmas weekend, and roads left slippery by the winter weather contributed to nearly 500 accidents — almost twice as many as the 2016 holiday weekend. The patrol said Tuesday that 125 people were injured during the period that began Friday…
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is predicting that Democrats and Republicans will “eventually come together “on a new health care plan for the country. Sending a Twitter post early Tuesday from his Florida resort, Trump said “the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate has been terminated as part of our Tax Cut…