JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is filling his schedule with events around Missouri this week rather than attending the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Blunt planned a Joplin event Monday to highlight his efforts to fund year-round federal grants for college students. On Tuesday, he is to be in Kansas City…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A judge has granted a request to move Reginald Clemons to the St. Louis city jail while he awaits retrial on charges of raping and killing two sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge in 1991. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison approved the move…
Speaker Paul Ryan often argues that he and all Republicans face a “binary choice” between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton
BALTIMORE (AP) – At least two attorneys who have been closely following the trials of officers charged in the custody death of a black man are questioning whether prosecutors should move forward with any more trials. Lt. Brian Rice was acquitted by a judge Monday, the third straight acquittal in the death of Freddie Gray,…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah health officials say a man who died after being infected with Zika virus passed it to a caregiver, creating a medical mystery about how it spread between them. The Salt Lake County Health Department said Monday that the two people didn’t have sexual contact and the type of mosquito…
CHICAGO (AP) – McDonald’s and Starbucks are implementing filtering technology that blocks customers using Wi-Fi from accessing pornography sites. The move follows a campaign from anti-pornography groups Enough is Enough and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation to demand the chains filter out pornography. Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s says in a statement that Wi-Fi filtering…
Baton Rouge, LA (KTRS) The man accused of the deadly ambush on police in Baton Rouge had ties to Missouri. He has been identified as Gavin Eugene Long, whose last known address was in Kansas City. Three police officers were killed and three others wounded in the attack. Long was killed by law enforcement. Meanwhile,…
