(KTRS) – It was a record year at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The school awarded nearly 3,200 degrees during the 2016 fiscal year. That is the most ever in one year. Officials say that number also includes more than 630 minority students.
(KTRS) – The St. Louis Police Department has an interesting idea as part of their community engagement campaign. “Operation Polar Cops” will send officers to events around the metro area where they will distribute free ice cream treats from a new ice cream truck. The St. Louis Police Foundation purchased the truck and the ice…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Authorities say a body pulled from the Mississippi River at St. Louis is a 29-year-old kayaker who went missing last week after hitting towlines between two barges. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the city medical examiner’s office has confirmed that the body recovered Saturday is that of Dalton Bast of Humboldt,…
PARIS (AP) – The United States is condemning in the “strongest possible terms” an attack on a French church that left its 86-year-old priest dead. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by two individuals who were shot and killed by police. White House spokesman Ned Price says France…
Philadelphia, PA (KTRS) Michael Brown’s mother is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Lezley McSpadden will speak as part of the group the “Mother’s of the Movement.” This is a group of mothers who lost children to encounters with police of gun violence. Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner and Sybrina Fulton,…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) – Missouri delegates to the Democratic National Convention got a surprise visit from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. State Democratic Party Chairman Roy Temple says he spotted Sanders on Tuesday morning in the Philadelphia hotel that Missouri delegates share with those from Illinois and Kansas. So he invited Sanders into their breakfast.…
