St. Louis, MO (KTRS) About 2000 new jobs will be created at Boeing’s St. Louis defense plant if it wins a military contract for its new training jet. Boeing today unveiled its T-X Air Force training jet, and is now vying for a $16-billion government contract to make more. The T-X replaces the fleet of…
Virginia Hanlon Grohl never expected her son to become a musician, let alone a rock star. But when she saw him perform in front of thousands of screaming fans for the first time, she knew that rock stardom was meant to be for her son.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been under scrutiny lately for several alarming and mysterious deaths lately, of both Pro-Putin and Anti-Putin activists and high-ranking government workers. Be it from poisoning, falling out of windows, mysterious heart attacks, or good old-fashioned getting shot in the back, many deaths lately have been seen as cover-ups by the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – John Danforth, a former Missouri attorney general, U.S. senator and ambassador to the United Nations, is the latest recipient of the Winston Churchill Leadership Medal. The award, announced Monday, is from the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where Churchill delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The 45th Annual Great Forest Park Balloon Race and Balloon Glow is being moved to Art Hill in Forest Park this year. Organizers say the change in venue is due to the renovations to Central Fields in Forest Park. The event is scheduled for September 15-16. “Forest Park in St.…
Alton, IL (KTRS) The Major Case Squad has been activated to investigate a murder in the metro-east. Investigators say a man’s body was found was found lying in the roadway in the 900 block of Union Street at just after 4 a.m. Sunday. The victim who has been identified as as 34-year-old Derrance Taylor. Investigators haven’t…
Pacific, MO (KTRS) A multi-agency resource center is opening today in Pacific to help victims of the recent flooding. This will be followed by other resource centers opening this week that will provide a one-stop shop for resources such as experts in housing and insurance as well as counseling services. Participating agencies include, the American Red…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Longtime Fox 2 news broadcaster John Auble has died. Fox 2 News reports that Auble died Saturday night after a long battle with cancer. The station posted this statement on its website: “John was a warrior a true journalist who cared. He served the St. Louis community well and we are…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Many top pro-business priorities of Republican Gov. Eric Greitens passed during his first legislative session, but campaign promises to ramp up ethics laws failed. Greitens’ biggest legislative successes of the annual session that ended Friday were on labor issues and changes aimed at making the state’s legal climate more business…
Alton, MO (KTRS) A suspect is being sought in connection to a shooting at a metro-east saloon. Police say a 24-year-old man was shot early Saturday morning inside the Riverside Saloon in Alton. The victim was taken to the hospital. The victim is reportedly listed in critical condition. An image was captured on video surveillance.…