CHICAGO (AP) – Vladimir Tarasenko scored on a pair of impressive wrist shots, Brian Elliott made 39 saves and the St. Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Tuesday night to open a commanding 3-1 lead in their first-round playoff series. Jaden Schwartz scored a tiebreaking power-play goal in the third period for the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Supporters of a proposed constitutional amendment to protect businesses that deny services for same-sex weddings are lobbying Missouri legislators. About 200 backers of the amendment rallied Tuesday in the Capitol. The measure would ban government punishment of businesses that cite religion while declining goods or services of “expressional or artistic…
( KTRS ) Legislation that would legalize medical marijuana cultivation with tight restrictions on who could use the drug has won initial approval in the Missouri House. The House adopted the bill Tuesday by 91-59 vote after limiting marijuana to terminal cancer patients in hospice. The restriction caused a split among some supporters of medical…
( KTRS ) Reforms will be coming quickly now that a federal judge has approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the city of Ferguson. Ferguson saw months of unrest following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in August, 2014. Federal Judge Catherine Perry issued her ruling approving the agreement Tuesday after…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS)  Ferguson’s newly elected council members are officially on the job. Linda Lipka, Heather Robinett, and returning Councilman Keith Kallstrom were sworn in at Tuesday night’s city council meeting. Lipka of the 1st ward says she’s ready to get to work. “My main goal is to get the consent decree moving very smoothly…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says a black male is dead after he was shot and killed by a white officer on the city’s north side. Dotson says two officers were following a suspected stolen car with three people inside Tuesday morning. He says the car pulled into an alley,…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man charged with posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus has changed his plea to guilty. Nineteen-year-old Hunter Park admitted Monday to making a terrorist threat. Authorities say the threats showed up Nov. 10 on the anonymous location-based messaging app Yik…
(KTRS) – The Environmental Protection Agency says there are options when it comes to dealing with radioactive material at the West Lake Landfill. The Post-Dispatch reports that EPA representatives met with area residents to give an update on plans. Nearly a decade ago, the agency proposed placing a cap over the materials, but many residents…
CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) – A former Mississippi County Detention Center inmate has filed a lawsuit claiming she was abused while pregnant and that abuse caused her to miscarry in December 2014. The Southeast Missourian reports Mississippi County, former jail administrator Cory Hutcheson and six other detention center employees are named as defendants in Tara Rhodes’…
