WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior military leaders take their political neutrality seriously. But this year’s presidential election — with forays into national security issues that have included proposals for carpet-bombing Syrian cities or waterboarding extremists — has the top brass navigating a political minefield. Senior officers, from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Engineers, safety advocates and even automakers have a message for federal regulators eager to get self-driving cars on the road: slow down. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is being told that fully self-driving cars may be the future of the industry, but that such vehicles aren’t yet up to the demands…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A new mammogram van is scheduled to visit various Missouri counties this year to give breast cancer screenings. The Columbia Missourian reports that the goal of the University of Missouri’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Center’s van is to bring quality screenings to women throughout the state. A nurse, a mammography technologist and…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri graduate student workers are planning a vote on whether to unionize. The Forum on Graduate Rights on Friday announced a vote will take place over two days beginning April 18 at the Columbia campus. Graduate student workers with photo identification can vote. Students rallied after university officials in…
ATLANTA (AP) – The St. Louis Cardinals set a major league record with three pinch-hit home runs while rallying from a four-run deficit to beat the Atlanta Braves 7-4 Friday night. Rookie Aledmys Diaz got his first career homer to break a tie as a pinch-hitter in the eighth, and Greg Garcia and rookie Jeremy…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri’s nursing school has received gifts totaling $3 million to go toward construction of a new building. University leaders announced Friday that Michael and Millie Brown of Leawood, Kansas, pledged $2 million. Richard Miller of Pittsburg, Kansas, also pledged $1 million. The money will go toward the estimated…
(KTRS) – The man accused of killing a manager at a south St. Louis Drury Inn, has been found guilty of his murder. Joseph Bowens shot and killed manager Scott Knopfel during a robbery in January 2015. Bowens was arrested in Poplar Bluff with a couple of weeks for an unrelated incident.
(KTRS) –Â Planned Parenthood officials in Missouri say they will fight the state Legislature’s decision to stop funding the organization. The Post-Dispatch reports that CEO Mary Kogut is preparing for a court fight if lawmakers continue with their plans. Kogut also said that doors to clinics will remain open. More than a dozen states have already…
(KTRS) – Franklin County authorities are being credited with using a taser to subdue a woman they say was pointing a gun at officers. Deputies say that a woman barricaded herself in a home in Villa Ridge. When the sheriff’s department entered the home, they found the woman pointing a gun toward them. An officer…
