JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Science fiction author Robert Heinlein has been inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians. Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a bronze bust of Heinlein that will be displayed in the House Chamber at the Capitol building. Heinlein was born in 1907 in Butler and raised in Kansas City. He launched…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal judge is admonishing an advocacy group for clergy abuse victims for defying her orders to release personal information about people who accused a priest of sexual misconduct. In a ruling Monday in St. Louis, U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson cited the “deliberate and willful refusal” by the Survivors…
(KTRS) – Salvation Army bell ringers and Girl Scouts selling cookies are no longer welcome outside of Schnucks grocery stores. The grocer announced that they will no longer allow groups soliciting donations to set up at store entrances. Earlier this year the chain laid off around 200 union warehouse workers. Since then, some of the…
(KTRS) – St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar says he will announce charges connected to the fatal shooting at Pam Hupp’s house August 16. Hupp was arrested by police earlier today and a formal announcement of charges is set for 3 p.m. One week ago, Hupp called police to report that she shot an intruder in…
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) – Prosecutors say defense attorneys for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have invented a legal issue by arguing the case was tainted by comments from U.S. Sen. John McCain. The defense wants the charges against Bergdahl to be thrown out because of “impermissible meddling” by McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services…
PITTSTON, Pa. (AP) – Police say a Pennsylvania man who believed sap from a tree next door was ruining his car, chopped it down, causing the tree to crash into an apartment building he owns, damaging it so badly it had to be condemned. Five others who lived in the building are now homeless. Fifty-one-year-old…
Des Peres, MO (KTRS) The funeral is today for the cancer patient who was beaten to death last week at an Illinois treatment facility. Investigators say 46-year-old Shannon Vincel was attacked on August 15th while sitting outside her hospital residence at Cancer Treatment Centers of America facility in Zion, Illinois. She died the following day…
