St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Layoff notices could begin as early as Wednesday for employees at St. Louis Community College. This comes after administrators were given approval to lay off as many as 70 faculty members and 25 staff members during a board meeting on November 30th. This action sparked protests during the meeting. The layoffs are…
By KIM CHANDLER and STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy Moore despite a litany of sexual misconduct allegations. It was the first…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fifth-largest wildfire in California history expanded Tuesday, ripping through dry brush atop a coastal ridge while crews struggled to keep flames from roaring down into neighborhoods amid fears of renewed winds. Elsewhere, fire officials announced that a cooking fire at a homeless encampment sparked a blaze…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson is reviewing nearly 8,000 pre-2014 municipal court cases to determine which should be thrown out, a process expected to take about six months. U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry on Tuesday heard a status update on the consent agreement between Ferguson and the U.S. Department of Justice. The agreement requires Ferguson…
NEW YORK (AP) — Hall of Fame player Marshall Faulk and two other NFL Network analysts were suspended after a woman who worked as a wardrobe stylist at the network accused them of sexual misconduct in a lawsuit. The NFL on Tuesday identified the three as Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans. They have been…
ARNOLD (KTRS) Police in Arnold are looking for a man they say was involved in a road rage incident this past week in which he allegedly assaulted a woman. According to Arnold Police Lieutenant Jim Jones, it happened Friday night at the Walgreens on Vogel Road at West Outer Road. The woman says a man began…
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman has been charged in the drowning death of her six-month-old son. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that 27-year-old Sydney Jones, of St. Joseph, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on a charge of abuse or neglect leading to the death of the child at her apartment. She’s…
NEW YORK (AP) — A passageway connecting New York City’s Port Authority bus terminal and the Times Square subway station is back in use the day after a bomb went off there. Security remains tight citywide on Tuesday. An NYPD official says the man accused of detonating the bomb was not previously known to authorities.…
By CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, pushing back against women accusing him of sexual misconduct, insisted Tuesday he’s the target of “false accusations and fabricated stories of women who I don’t know and/or have never met.” Trump lashed out on Twitter a day after three women who previously accused him of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general said Monday that he’s weighing whether to appoint a special investigator to check into use of the secretive Confide messaging app by several senior members of Gov. Eric Greitens’ office. Attorney General Josh Hawley, a Republican, was asked by Democratic state Sen. Scott Sifton of the St.…