JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens already has a remarkable resume that includes international humanitarian trips and founding a nonprofit to help military veterans find work. Now he can add another item: Republican nominee for Missouri governor. Greitens won a hard-fought, four-way Republican primary Tuesday for the right to take…
( KTRS ) For the second time in less than a year, Ferguson residents have approved a tax increase to help the city rebound from the financial hit it took following Michael Browns death The approved 2 percent hike in the “business license utility tax”, will reportedly create an additional $700,000 every year. City Manager…
Brentwood, MO (KTRS) Catherine Hanaway says it’s time to move forward. The former Speaker of the House expressed that during her concession speech at her watch party at the Brentwood Drury Inn. “We have to come together now. We have to support Eric Greitens. We tried to defeat him mightly, but he is our Republican nominee.”…
Grichuk Shipped Back to Memphis
What began as police chasing a stolen vehicle, ended with a suspect in the hospital after an officer-involved shooting. Tuesday afternoon, police spotted a stolen vehicle and tried to pull the driver over, but the suspect sped away. Police ended the chase by suing spike strips, causing the driver to crash into a fire hydrant.…
(KTRS) – A woman and her 16-year-old son are dead, police say they were stabbed to death in north St. Louis. Fox 2 reports they were stabbed to death inside a home near the Ville neighborhood. A 22-year-old man, who could be the woman’s older son is in custody. we will have updates as more…
CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say two Iowa men have drowned in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks after one of the men began struggling and the other man attempted to save him. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as 46-year-old Dennis Michel, of Ankeny, Iowa, and 40-year-old Jacob Seeman, of Woodward, Iowa. The…
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Paul Ryan is airing a campaign ad in which he says he is “committed to securing our borders” with an image of a fence as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump repeatedly promises to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The ad comes a day after Trump thanked Ryan’s primary…
METAIRIE, La. (AP) – Louisiana’s law requiring eyebrow threaders to take 750 hours in beauty school is raising eyebrows and a lawsuit. A libertarian nonprofit law firm says it is suing. Threading plucks hair by pulling twisted thread along the skin, rather than tweezing hairs one at a time. Louisiana threaders need an esthetician’s license,…
