(KTRS) – The VP Parade is returning to downtown St. Louis after moving to Forest Park for two years. The theme of this year’s parade if “Hats Off to Heroes” and will step off from Seventh and Market Streets at 10 a.m. on July 2. Fair St. Louis will remain in Forest Park for a…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is granting more time for public comment on a preliminary decision to build a $1.6 billion headquarters in Missouri instead of Illinois. The Belleville News-Democrat reports agency director Robert Cardillo announced Friday that people now have until May 2nd to weigh in on the project that is…
(KTRS) – Billy Busch is facing new opposition to buy and manage Grant’s Farm. His four siblings first tried to sell the facility to the St. Louis Zoo, but have had a change of heart: they want to own and operate the property. The Post-Dispatch reports that a spokesman for the siblings said their offer…
(KTRS) – Voters in St. Louis County may get more time to cast a vote in Tuesday’s elections. The problems started earlier today when a few polling places reported shortages. The shortages expanded to include dozens of locations throughout the county. By Tuesday afternoon, election officials said that they are formally asking to extend voting hours…
(KTRS) – Drivers are facing steeper fines for infractions like speeding on a stretch of I-70 in Wentzville. MoDOT designated the highway from Route A and Wentzville Parkway a travel safe zone. Transportation officials say there have been more fatal accidents on that section of highway than other similar areas. Fox 2 reports that signs…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Delrish Moss experienced the worst of policing growing up in inner-city Miami. Those close to him say that makes him the ideal person to bring the best of it to Ferguson, Missouri, where African-American mistrust of police dates long before the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Moss, a 51-year-old black man,…
(KTRS) – One engineer was taken to the hospital for a checkup after two of the St. Louis Zoo’s trains collided Friday afternoon. Zoo officials say more than 150 visitors were on the trains at the time of the accident, but none were injured. One train was going 8 miles an hour when it ran into…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The domed stadium in St. Louis is getting a new name, now that the Rams are gone. Since 2002, the financial firm Edward Jones has owned the naming rights. But as of Friday, the Edward Jones Dome is being renamed The Dome at America’s Center. The NFL in January agreed to…
(KTRS) – In a big win for the city of St. Louis, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency appears ready to build a new regional headquarters in north St. Louis. NGA Director Robert Cardillo is expected to formally announce the decision Friday. This means the NGA’s 3,100 employees will continue to pay the city’s earnings tax, a…
(KTRS) – There are currently no solid plans for Major League Soccer to expand to St. Louis. Still, a design firm that released an idea for an MLS stadium near Union Station is asking for public input on a stadium ideas. Fox 2 reports that Space Architecture + Design is hosting an open house this…