JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The National Rifle Association is backing Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster for Missouri governor. The NRA’s political action committee on Tuesday announced it endorsed Koster over his GOP opponent Eric Greitens. Greitens is a former Navy SEAL officer and former Democrat. He shot a large gun and caused an explosion…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is appointing two new members to the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners after a judge ruled the board didn’t follow state law. Nixon’s Tuesday appointments came days after St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison called for another election for a St. Louis-area state House seat…
XENIA, Ohio (AP) – A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman sparked a national outcry has registered as a sex offender in Ohio, where he’s living with his parents. Brock Turner registered at the Greene County sheriff’s office on Tuesday, four days after leaving a California jail after…
Chesterfield, MO Â (KTRS) Â Donald Trump’s running mate will visit the Show-Me-State today. Indiana Governor Mike Pence is scheduled to make two campaign stops in Missouri. The first will be at a town hall in Springfield at 10:30 a.m. This will be followed by a rally at the Doubletree Hotel in Chesterfield at 1:30 p.m.
A measure to raise the age to buy tobacco products in St. Louis County is one step closer to becoming a reality. A final passage on a bill to raise the age from 18 to 21 to purchase tobacco products is expected at Tuesday night’s St. Louis County Council meeting. Last week the council gave…
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – After competing in pageants for generations in the closet or working behind the scenes, gays and lesbians finally get to see one of their own take one of pageantry’s biggest stages. Miss Missouri, Erin O’ Flaherty, will compete for the Miss America crown on Sept. 11 as the first openly…
( KTRS ) Authorities have identified the teenager who died after walking into the path of a tractor-trailer on I-70 near St. Louis. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Ethan Brumbeloe of O’Fallon, MO. was hit Sunday evening while on a westbound lane of the freeway in St. Charles County. It’s not immediately clear why…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A recent state audit says Missouri is making in-state and out-of-state students bear more of the costs at public universities and colleges, prompting Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon to respond that the state is a national leader in college affordability. Nixon touted Missouri’s lowest-in-the-nation in-state undergraduate tuition increases since 2008. He…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A University of Missouri assistant communications professor fired for her conduct during student protests late last year has a new job with a university in Washington state. The Kansas City Star reports that Melissa Click has been hired as a lecturer at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Click was fired in February…