Chief Moss makes first hire since consent decree
( KTRS ) The City of Ferguson has officially sworn in a new Police officer. Area native, Drew Canaday, is the seventh African- American police officer in the department. He is the first recipient of a scholarship adopted by Ferguson City Council members in 2014, to attend the St. Louis County Police Academy. Officer Canaday…
Woman charged in attack of St. Louis train station worker
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Ferguson woman has been charged in the attack of a security guard at a train station in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/296eJ7o ) reports that 22-year-old Ronisha Pampkin is charged with third-degree assault. Police say she attacked a security guard who was checking tickets at the North Hanley…
Escobar’s second go-ahead hit leads Royals over Cards in 12
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Alcides Escobar hit a go-ahead RBI double just inside the right-field line in the 12th inning and the Kansas City Royals outlasted the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Wednesday night. Escobar drove in the first run of the game with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the eighth. His fly to shallow…
Team chosen to review University of Missouri after turmoil
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former system president and a wealthy university donor will help review the University of Missouri following last year’s turmoil. GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson Wednesday named former system president Gary Forsee and Jeanne Sinquefield to an eight-member review commission. Sinquefield and her husband, conservative donor Rex Sinquefield, have given…
Nixon backs Missouri power line for wind energy
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Jay Nixon is backing a proposed power line in Missouri that’s part of a multistate wind energy project. Nixon on Wednesday announced Clean Line Energy Partners has promised to adopt what he described as landowner protections. The project would transmit electricity from Kansas, across northern Missouri and Illinois to Indiana.…
Delta Queen closer to cruising after Senate committee vote
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An effort to get the legendary Delta Queen riverboat back up and running on the Mississippi River and its tributaries has gotten a boost from the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. The committee on Wednesday agreed to reinstate an exemption for the 89-year-old vessel, which has been docked since 2009. The measure…