JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens’ campaign says it has no relationship with the treasurer of a political action committee that’s behind attack ads, even though the man made calls at a campaign event. LG PAC treasurer Hank Monsees told The Associated Press Monday that Greitens’ campaign didn’t ask him to…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – An activist group has suspended its efforts to loosen marijuana restrictions in Columbia while awaiting the fate of a statewide push to allow Missourians to vote on legalizing medical marijuana. Mid-Missouri NORMAL wants Columbia to decriminalize the cultivation of six or fewer marijuana plants. Group president Josh Chittum says the issue…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Twenty-six Syrian refugees have arrived in St. Louis to start new lives. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the International Institute of St. Louis helped four families make their way to the city over the weekend. Volunteers with the institute spent last week preparing housing and gathering food items for each…
( KTRS) Police have arrested two suspects for allegedly shooting a 3-year-old boy in the head Saturday night. The child is alive, but remains in critical condition. The boy was shot Saturday night around 8:20, while riding in a car with his father. According to the father, he was turning left onto East Grand Boulevard…
He has a history of depression and did not take his diabetes medicine with him
The lawsuit claims St. Louis County’s prosecutor mischaracterized the jury’s findings when he announced in November 2014 that the panel declined to indict officer Darren Wilson
Hastert has a Wednesday afternoon deadline to report to federal prison
(KTRS) – The Jackson, Missouri police department issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a 57-year-old woman who was last seen on Friday. Police say that Adrienna Ptacek’s family last saw her Friday at 4 p.m. She is a white female, five-feet ten-inches tall with blonde hair. She also drives a Checy Malibu with a broken…
NOCHIXTLAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican police say few teachers were involved in violence at a weekend highway protest in the southern state of Oaxaca in which six people died. Federal Police Chief Enrique Galindo blames Sunday’s violence on other, unspecified “radical groups.” Galindo says the confrontation between protesting teachers and state and federal police in…
The National Weather Service says the mercury hit 118 on Sunday, breaking a record of 115 set nearly 50 years ago