ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Panera Bread is expanding with the purchase of Au Bon Pain, the Boston-based bakery-cafe chain that had been part of Panera before its sale in 1999. Au Bon Pain has 304 stores nationwide and will enable Panera to grow to hospitals, universities and urban sites. It was part of Panera before 1999, when…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) World Wide Technology’s new headquarters in Maryland Heights at Westport Plaza is open for business. Officials celebrated the opening of the new complex at a ribbon-cutting Tuesday afternoon. Co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, Jim Kavanaugh, says they built the new headquarter complex to serve the needs of employees as as well…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The ABB production facility in St. Louis … the scene of a deadly workplace shooting seven years ago in which four people were killed … is closing as ABB reorganizes part of its global power grids operations. The move means 120 people will lose their jobs. The Swiss engineering group is responding to…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Long-time St. Louis broadcaster Bill Wilkerson has died after a brief illness. He was 72. Wilkerson enjoyed a 40-year career in St. Louis, first at KMOX and then KTRS Radio, earning a special place in the hearts of sports fans providing both play by play and color commentary for the St. Louis Cardinals…
ST. CHARLES (KTRS) The suspect in the New York City attack yesterday, Sayfullo Saipov, was arrested in St. Charles a year ago on a traffic violation. Saipov, who ran a small trucking firm, was ticketed for not having the right brakes on his vehicle in Platte County, near Kansas City in late 2015. A warrant was…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Updated at 11:25 a.m., 11/1/2017: MERS Goodwill officials say they have reunited a box of World War II medals, including a Purple Heart, with the family of the man who had earned them in the war. Goodwill officials said Wednesday that Natalya Cox, the widow of Dr. Marvin L. Cox, had been cleaning their…
LOS ANGELES (AP) Robert Guillaume, who won Emmy Awards for his roles on “Soap” and “Benson,” has died at age 89. Guillaume’s widow Donna Brown Guillaume says the actor and singer died Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. She tells The Associated Press he had been battling prostate cancer. In addition to his television work, Robert Guillaume…
