WASHINGTON (AP) – First lady Michelle Obama tells Oprah Winfrey that this past election was “painful.” Mrs. Obama sat down with Winfrey at the White House for an hourlong special that was broadcast Monday on CBS. On the topic of the recent campaign she said: “This past election was challenging for me as a citizen…
FLINT, Mich. (AP) – More charges have been filed by Michigan’s attorney general in the investigation into the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, Michigan, including against two former state-appointed emergency managers. Attorney General Bill Schuette on Tuesday charged former emergency managers Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose with multiple 20-year felonies for their failure to protect…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Documents obtained by the Columbia Daily Tribune show 16 students who drank at University of Missouri fraternities were taken to hospitals for alcohol poisoning since August 2015. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports those incidents include cases reported to the university police department or the Department of Student Life. Records show six…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The dangerous wintry mix that settled over Missouri during the weekend is gone, but bitter cold on Monday forced dozens of schools to call off classes and made venturing outdoors miserable. Parts of the state awoke to temperatures below zero Monday morning, and readings most everywhere else were in single digits.…
( KTRS ) Homicide detectives have been called to take over an investigation. Police say a man was found shot, unconscious and not breathing, in the 8900 block of Riverview just after 5:30pm Monday evening. At this time no further details have been released.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Authorities have identified the 68-year-old woman who died in a southwestern Illinois vehicle crash over the weekend. The St. Clair County Coroner’s Office identified the woman as Marlene A. Horn of Millstadt. She was pronounced dead early Monday after a late night crash that injured three others including two children. Police…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A man who was spared the death penalty by a St. Louis-area jury that instead assessed a life prison term in the 1977 shooting death of a police officer has died in prison. The Missouri Department of Corrections said 72-year-old James Davis died of apparent natural causes Saturday at a…
( KTRS ) Police are investigating a Monday night shooting. Authorities say the shooting took place just after 9:30pm near the intersection of Labadie and Sarah Ave. One male victim was found with a gun shot wound to the stomach and taken to a hospital in serious/stable condition. At this time no other info is…
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(KTRS) – St. Louis is the front-runner of 10 markets competing to be one of four Major Leagues Soccer expansion teams in 2020. But SC STL, the group trying to bring soccer to the city is asking for public money to help establish the expansion team. Governor-elect Eric Greitens took to Facebook to opposed the use…