JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri senators have passed a plan to prevent cuts to in-home and nursing care for seniors and people with disabilities. Senators voted 28-5 Thursday to spend as much as $35.4 million to keep those services intact. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens initially recommended reducing in-home and nursing care to save money. House…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Some workers in the city of St. Louis will soon see an increase in their pay. The ordinance setting the City’s minimum wage at $10 is set to take effect on Friday. The Circuit Court has lifted its injunction that previously blocked the ordinance from becoming law. Beginning January 1, 2018,…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An animal rights group is offering a $5,000 reward for information after a dog was left to drown at a Kansas City-area lake. PETA officials say park rangers found the dog tied to a cinder block Friday on the shore of Longview Lake in Jackson County. He had no food…
St. Louis, MO (AP) Residents of areas hit hard by flooding in Missouri are getting some good news: River levels are subsiding, some evacuated residents will be allowed to go home and a closed interstate is reopening. Dropping water levels along the Meramec River on Thursday prompted the mayor of Valley Park to lift evacuation…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – River levels are falling after record and near-record flooding in parts of the Midwest, but the crisis is far from over. The troublesome Black River that runs from southeast Missouri into northeast Arkansas was down after cresting earlier this week in places like Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Pocahontas, Arkansas. But the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An engineering student at Saint Louis University did too well on a class assignment to build a toy gun, creating a model so realistic that it prompted a campus-wide lockdown and hunt for a possible shooting suspect. The private, Catholic university in Missouri warned all students to shelter in place for…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – River levels are falling after record and near-record flooding in parts of the Midwest, but the crisis is far from over. The troublesome Black River that runs from southeast Missouri into northeast Arkansas was down after cresting earlier this week in places like Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Pocahontas, Arkansas. But the…
( KTRS ) Police say a man was found shot in the back on southbound I-55 Wednesday Afternoon. Officers were called yesterday around 2 pm to 55 and Loughborough. Upon arrival they found the victim with a gunshot wound to the back. The man was conscious and breathing at the time. He was taken to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri budgeters have finished a final version of the state’s proposed $27 billion spending plan. A panel of House and Senate negotiators on Wednesday unveiled the plan for the fiscal year starting in July. It needs a final vote of approval from the Legislature. The proposal would increase basic aid for…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Flooding continues to plague the St. Louis area. Even though the Meramec River has crested in Valley Park and Eureka, the additional rainfall could slow the progess as Mark Diedtrich, the director of St. Louis County Emergency Management explained during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. “The National Weather Service…