JEFFERSON CITY (KTRS) – As St. Louis and Kansas City submit bids Thursday for the second headquarters of Amazon, the state of Missouri is turning in its own bid – with the promise of building what it calls an innovation corridor between the major metro areas. Missouri Economic Development Director Rob Dixon says the proposal would…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Updated at 12:00 p.m. An Endangered Person Advisory that St. Louis County Police posted earlier this morning for two missing north county girls is canceled. Police say the teenagers – 14-year-old Kareema Martin and 11-year-old Kormorah Gilbert – have been found safe. Police say the two left last night with five…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has sent a $25,000 check he promised to the father of an Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump offered the money during a telephone conversation with the father of Dillon Baldrige a few weeks after the 22-year-old was killed in…
Breckenridge Hills, MO (KTRS) A suspect is in custody in connection with a murder in north county. Thirty-seven-year-old Troy Whitaker of University City was charged on Wednesday with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a gun in the fatal shooting of 36-year-old Anthony Jackson. Police say the two men were arguing at…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Columbia police say a woman who caused a brief alert after a report that she had a gun on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia never planned to hurt anyone. Police spokesman Bryana Larimer said in a news release that an acquaintance of the woman reported Wednesday that she was…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas hotel employee who entered a hallway near the suite where a gunman was holed up says he thinks the first gunfire he heard was out the windows of the high-rise. Mandalay Bay building engineer Stephen Schuck tells TV host Ellen DeGeneres in an interview set to air Wednesday…
By Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again tweeting about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation. The latest burst came Wednesday morning in response to the FBI’s release of a heavily blacked-out draft memo from May 2016 by Director James Comey in preparation for closing the Clinton…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating another fatal shooting in north St. Louis. Police say a man in his fifties was fatally shot Tuesday night in the 4200 block of Holly. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. This brings the St. Louis murder count …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A committee of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted not to send a resolution supporting the city’s police to the full board for discussion. The decision came Tuesday in a meeting where several committee members said they were frustrated that they are spending time debating resolutions since a white police…
ST. LOUIS (AP) A spokeswoman for Johnson & Johnson says the company is pleased with a Missouri appeals court ruling that threw out a $72 million award for an Alabama woman who claimed the company’s talcum powder contributed to her ovarian cancer. The appeals court ruled Tuesday that Missouri was not the proper jurisdiction for the…