JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation to require high school students to pass a civics test and learn CPR. The legislation signed Wednesday requires high schoolers who start ninth grade after July 2017 to pass an exam similar to the U.S. citizenship test. The measure also creates a pilot program…
( KTRS ) The City of St. Louis has begun removing thousands of trees affected, or at risk, from the Emerald Ash Borer Beatle. The shiny green bug is responsible for destroying hundreds of thousands of Ash trees and recently has been discovered in the City of St. Louis. The City’s Forestry Division has been…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri has its first openly gay Miss Missouri. Erin O’Flaherty was crowned Miss Missouri on Saturday in Mexico, Missouri. Ann Jolly, chairman of the board of the Miss Missouri Scholarship Organization, said Wednesday that the 23-year-old O’Flaherty is the first openly gay woman to be named Miss Missouri. O’Flaherty said in…
(KTRS) – St. Louis Police are asking for help to find the suspects connected to the robbery of a Church’s Chicken last week. Police say both suspects are African-American men in their early 20’s. One man was wearing a Star Wars stormtrooper hooded jacked and the other was wearing a yellow-hooded jacked. The men stole money…
ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has arrived at a Minnesota prison to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys when he coached wrestling at an Illinois high school. The 74-year-old Illinois Republican arrived around noon Wednesday at the federal…
The law now outlaws ads on posters, websites, apps and other places for prostitution and pornography of children and non-consenting adults
Normally planes don’t use the polar outpost from February to October because of the dangers of flying in the pitch dark and cold
Trump says Clinton “slept soundly in her bed” while U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis area is under a heat advisory. The Natural Weather Service is calling for temperatures to reach close to 100 degrees with heat index values up to 110.This has the St. Louis Health Department says the combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will likely lead to an increased…
