St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Corporate Executives are raising awareness for youth homelessness by sleeping outside in the cold. On any given night in St. Louis, over 3,000 children wonder where they will sleep and ultimately seek refuge in abandoned buildings, cold corners, and in physically and mentally unsafe situations because they have no…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) On the very first day of Saint Louis University’s third century, SLU has announced that it is embarking on the largest and most ambitious fundraising campaign in its 200-year history. The Campaign for Saint Louis University called “Accelerating Excellence” is seeking to propel SLU to national prominence as a world-class research…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Federal Reserve says farm income continued to decline across the Plains and western states this fall because crop prices remain weak. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, says more than half the bankers in the region say that farm income is lower than last year because the ongoing…
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — Officials in northeastern Missouri have confirmed the shooting death of a man in a hunting accident. Authorities say that 52-year-old Randy Reising, of Arnold, died Nov. 10 in rural Lewistown. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called to a cabin where Reising and a group of friends were getting…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A report by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank says farm income is continuing to decline within its district. The Fed says the third-quarter report released this week was the 19th straight survey in which most bankers indicated that farm income was on the decline. Bankers also were slightly less…
CHICAGO, IL (AP) — Attorneys for Illinois Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker’s campaign have asked a judge to toss out a racial discrimination lawsuit filed a few weeks before the November general election by 10 campaign workers. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a motion to dismiss the lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court. Lawyers for Pritzker’s…
MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri substitute teacher is seeking answers after claiming he was banned because he thanked students for saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Jim Furkin has worked as a sub for about a decade in St. Louis County’s Parkway School District, mostly at Parkway South High School, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported…
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — City leaders in the historic northeast Missouri hometown of Mark Twain have been talking about renovating the area along Twain’s beloved Mississippi River for three decades, and now, that work is about to begin. The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that the city council recently approved a $6.6 million contract for riverfront renovations.…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — A suspect is being sought after a woman was robbed at gunpoint while clearing snow from her car in north St. Louis. Police say early Thursday morning, a man walked up to the 41-year-old woman in the 3600 block of Fillmore Street pointed a gun, and announced a holdup. He got…
(KTRS) St. Louis MO Three separate people and a Family Dollar store were held up by gunpoint in St. Louis during the snow storm Thursday morning. St. Louis Police report that a 16-year-old girl was approached by two men with a gun in the 42 hundred block of Grand overnight. Then around 5 A.M., a…