JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is backing a bill that would shield health care providers from lawsuits related to the coronavirus. The bill awaiting debate in the Legislature covers nursing homes, long-term care facilities, all caregivers and first responders. Parson says the last thing he wants is for good…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker is asking a judge to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus. Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued Bakker and Morningside Church Productions Inc. in early March. Schmitt asked for an injunction ordering Bakker to…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri-based TV pastor Jim Bakker is asking a judge to dismiss a state lawsuit accusing him of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus. Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued Bakker and Morningside Church Productions Inc. in early March. Schmitt asked for an injunction ordering Bakker to…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police need your help identifying the suspect in this weekends’ homicide in the North Riverfront neighborhood. According to police, officers responded to a shooting call in the 700 block of Ponce Avenue shortly after 3 P.M. Sunday afternoon and found 25-year-old Jerome Guest of the 5300 block of Kingshighway suffering from…
(KTRS) St. Louis Police detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects in a theft at the Aldon Condominiums on April 30, 2020 Officers responded to a call for a “Burglary” after the suspects entered the building, took property and then fled the scene. The investigation is ongoing. We have posted the…
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) An East St. Louis man is charged with first-degree murder in a metro-east homicide. According to the Illinois State Police, 25-year-old Ormond Mosley has been arrested on multiple charges related to last months’ shooting death of 26-year-old Cornelius Jones. The incident occurred on April 25th in the parking lot of…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 300 workers at a northwestern Missouri pork processing plant have now tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest of several meat plants around the country to see huge spikes in confirmed cases of the virus. Missouri’s health department oversaw testing this week of more than 2,300 asymptomatic workers at the…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature is taking up a new redistricting plan once again. A House committee on Thursday advanced the proposal. The measure would ask voters yet again to change state redistricting rules. Missourians in 2018 voted to make “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” top criteria in drawing state House and Senate…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Advocates for Missouri state workers are pushing for higher pay and more protective equipment. Union leaders, Democratic state lawmakers and other advocates for worker rights on Thursday called on Gov. Mike Parson to do more to protect employees from the coronavirus. One union leader said public workers shouldn’t have to die…
Cape Girardeau, MO (KTRS) The man accused of setting fire to an Islamic Center in Southeast Missouri is set to appear in federal court Thursday. In a release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says 42-year-old Nicholas Proffitt is facing federal arson charges for maliciously damaging the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau. According to the criminal complaint,…