(KTRS) – In November Missouri voters approved limits on campaign contributions. Next week a judge could temporarily stop the caps from taking effect. A business group filed a lawsuit, saying the constitutional amendment unfairly keeps them from making some donations. The new rules cap contributions to individual candidates at $2,600 an election and donations to a…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Donald Trump is suggesting that the United States must “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.” Trump tweeted Thursday that the U.S. must bolster its arsenal “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” It was not immediately clear what Trump meant. The tweet comes a day after…
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York man says he and his husband were removed from a JetBlue flight after his husband “expressed displeasure” about flying with Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Matthew Lasner said on Twitter that JetBlue staff kicked him and his husband off the flight from New York’s Kennedy airport…
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) It’s being called a freak accident after a horse pulling a carriage on the St. Charles Riverfront drowned in the Missouri River. Authorities say the horse became startled and took off and ran into the Missouri River late Wednesday night. No one was in the carriage at the time of the…
Spanish Lake, MO (KTRS) A man is dead following an overnight fire in Spanish Lake. Firefighters were called to a burning home along the 11-thousand block of Criterion Avenue at just after 3 a.m. Thursday. When the fire was extinguished, investigators it was determined that an adult male was killed in the fire. He appears…
( KTRS ) The St. Louis County Police Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing teen girl. Missing is 16 yr old Torri Symone Flowers-Rhodes. She was last seen Wednesday around 6:30pm leaving a home on Greenbriar Dr in Florissant. Police say that after an argument with her mother Tori left home…
Police in Creve Coeur are looking for the suspect who robbed the American Eagle Credit Union on Tuesday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the man walked into the credit union, at 12395 Olive Blvd around 5:30 Tuesday evening, and told workers there that he had a gun. The man then fled the scene. Anyone…
Police say a horse drowned late Wednesday night after it ran into the Missouri River. Fox 2 news reports the incident happened around 10:15pm last night on South Riverside Drive in St. Charles. The horse apparently became spooked and took off while the carriage was still attached. No one was in the carriage at the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri lawmaker behind a failed attempt to protect some businesses opposed to same-sex marriage says he doesn’t plan to try again next year. Republican Sen. Bob Onder told The Associated Press on Wednesday that too much time was spent this year on the proposed constitutional amendment, only for it…
( KTRS ) One victim is recovering after being shot Wednesday night. Police say the shooting took place just after 10pm last night in the 5800 block of Highland. One male was shot in the arm and taken to an area hospital for treatment. At this time no further details have been released.