ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley opposes a federal provision that bars religious organizations from political endorsements, and his upcoming appearance at a Baptist university may provide a test case for the future of the measure. Hawley, the state’s attorney general, is scheduled to speak Wednesday during chapel at Hannibal-LaGrange…
EAST ST. LOUIS, IL (AP) — Two people have admitted to federal charges that they used counterfeit money to buy Girl Scout cookies in southwestern Illinois. Court records say Christopher Vanbibber pleaded guilty Thursday charge of passing counterfeit currency, while Lena Peterson pleaded guilty to the charge in June. The two Caseyville, Illinois, residents were…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a former Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant who alleged he was discriminated against after speaking out about the drowning of a handcuffed Iowa man. U.S. District Judge Willie Epps found Wednesday that Randy Henry went too far in talking to reporters, posting…
KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) — A coalition of nonprofit groups that has registered more than 87,000 new Missouri voters — most of them black residents — says it is not working for Sen. Claire McCaskill, but its effort could help her campaign against Republican challenger Josh Hawley. The nonpartisan coalition called Missouri Black Votes wants…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities are looking for a St. Louis man who has been charged in a deadly shooting in the city. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 54-year-old Eugene Phillip Hampton was charged Thursday with murder and armed criminal action in the death of 44-year-old Rodrick Pitts. He was ordered held without bail…
JOPLIN, MO (AP) — An Illinois truck driver has been charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed an 8-year-old girl as she crossed a road to board a school bus in southwest Missouri. The Joplin Globe reports that 49-year-old Lance Lee, of DeKalb, Illinois, was charged Thursday with one count of leaving the scene of an…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A north St. Louis man is facing charges in the fatal shooting of a man he suspected of stealing his tools. Fifty-one-year-old David Allen Sproling is charged with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of 60-year-old William Kirkwood. Sproling is accused of confronting Kirkwood at gunpoint Tuesday because he…
Police report on Friday morning that Tony Walker returned home. Earlier Story Jennings, MO (KTRS) Police say a Jennings man having a diminished mental capacity has wondered away from his home and may be in danger. Thirty-eight-year-old Tony Taylor walked away from his home in the 8600 block of Jennings Station Road around 5 p.m.…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Republican Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley says a hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and an accuser against him is a “circus.” Hawley at a campaign event in St. Charles told reporters he had only seen snippets of the Thursday Senate hearing. But he says Democrats have “launched an ambush on…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A new contract from the Air Force will support an estimated 1,800 direct and indirect jobs in the St. Louis region. The contract is for $9.2 billion and calls on Boeing to build the T-X Advanced Pilot Training System, which includes 350 aircraft and ground-based training and support. Leanne Caret, president and CEO,…