COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri is urging student groups to halt some social events as the number of mumps cases continues to rise. The Student Health Center said Wednesday that there are 128 confirmed and probable cases. The outbreak began in early November with four confirmed cases. Most of them are linked…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump’s transition team says the incoming president will meet on Friday with North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat up for re-election in 2018. Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence plan to talk with Heitkamp at Trump Tower in New York. Trump won Heitkamp’s home state with an overwhelming majority in…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Observers representing Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein are spread out throughout Wisconsin to watch as ballots are recounted. Trump’s Wisconsin campaign director Pete Meachum was in Madison on Thursday for the start of the recount. Meachum says the campaign had people in every…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) One person is dead and another is injured following two separate shooting in the Castle Point neighborhood of north county. Police say a 17-year-old boy was shot in the foot in the 10000 block of Baron Drive at around 9:45 p.m. Thursday. The victim was treated and released from an…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Today is World AIDS Day. This has the St. Louis and St. Louis County Health departments offering free HIV screening today. AREA TESTING SITES: North Central Community Health Center 4000 Jennings Station Road Pine Lawn, MO 63121 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Missouri History Museum 5700 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A fundraiser is being held today for a Hazelwood police officer who was left paralyzed from a traffic accident last summer. Dozens of area restaurants are participating in the “Tables For Tudor” event to benefit Officer Craig Tudor. A portion of the proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Officer Tudor…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – An Illinois House committee has endorsed a late-hour compromise on a monstrous energy plan originally designed to keep two unprofitable nuclear plants open. The Energy Committee approved the deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually to Exelon Corp. on a 9-1 vote Wednesday night. It’s readied for a House floor…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The reward has climbed to more than $82,000 for information leading to an arrest in the death of a St. Louis bar owner. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://j.mp/2fMD836) 57-year-old Patrick McVey was shot to death in his SUV on Nov. 9. McVey was a co-owner of Maggie O’Brien’s Restaurant &…
( KTRS ) A man was taken to hospital in critical condition after being shot in the chest Wednesday night. Police say the man was shot around 8 p.m. in the 2600 block of Countryside Drive in what appears to be a domestic incident. One suspect was taken into custody. No further details have been…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois house has approved a symbolic measure expressing opposition to passing an income-tax increase during a lame-duck session when fewer votes are required and outgoing legislators don’t have to worry about re-election. Legislators approved a resolution on the matter on a vote of 87 to 12 Wednesday. Resolutions are not…