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The Latest: House adjourns till after July 4
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on House Democrats’ protest demanding a vote on gun control legislation. The House has adjourned until after July 4 after majority Republicans pushed through a partisan bill to deal with the Zika outbreak. Republicans moved to adjourn immediately after the Zika vote to shut down a round-the-clock sit-in by Democrats…
Ellen Soeteber, former editor of the Post-Dispatch, dies
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Veteran journalist Ellen Soeteber, the former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has died after a brief illness. The Kassly Mortuary in Fairview Heights, Illinois, confirms that Soeteber died on Tuesday. She was 66. Soeteber spent 20 years at the Chicago Tribune before becoming managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel…
Man charged after allegedly trying to scam Missouri governor
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Michigan man who allegedly tried to collect fake debts from Gov. Jay Nixon has been charged with a felony for alleged deceptive business practices. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster on Wednesday said StarProse Corporation CEO Jeffrey Scott Kowalski tried to get tax information and collect non-existent debts from the…
Missouri law to require civics test, CPR for high schoolers
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation to require high school students to pass a civics test and learn CPR. The legislation signed Wednesday requires high schoolers who start ninth grade after July 2017 to pass an exam similar to the U.S. citizenship test. The measure also creates a pilot program…
City begins Ash Tree removal in St. Louis
( KTRS ) The City of St. Louis has begun removing thousands of trees affected, or at risk, from the Emerald Ash Borer Beatle. The shiny green bug is responsible for destroying hundreds of thousands of Ash trees and recently has been discovered in the City of St. Louis. The City’s Forestry Division has been…
Missouri has its first openly gay Miss Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri has its first openly gay Miss Missouri. Erin O’Flaherty was crowned Miss Missouri on Saturday in Mexico, Missouri. Ann Jolly, chairman of the board of the Miss Missouri Scholarship Organization, said Wednesday that the 23-year-old O’Flaherty is the first openly gay woman to be named Miss Missouri. O’Flaherty said in…