CAIRO (AP) — President Donald Trump is condemning an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt Friday. The White House says Trump spoke with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi after the attack by a gunman in Helwan killed at least eight members of Egypt’s long-suffering minority community as well as a police officer. Trump “condemned the attack…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID JEANS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A preschooler toying with the burners on his mother’s stove accidentally sparked New York City’s deadliest fire in decades, an inferno that quickly overtook an apartment building and blocked the main escape route, the fire commissioner said Friday. A dozen people died , and…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Due to the weather forecast of bitterly low temperatures and wind chill, Winterfest at the Arch will close for the season early Friday, Dec. 29, after the 2- 9 p.m. public skate session. Cold weather has forced Six Flags St. Louis to close early. It will not be open Saturday, Dec. 30, through…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count now stands at 205. This comes after a man was fatally shot at just after 10 p.m. Thursday in the 1700 block of Dick Gregory. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. The last time St. Louis…
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending other residents scrambling outside into the cold and down fire escapes to safety. The dead included a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has a new leader. During a Thursday afternoon press conference, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards announced that Police Commissioner John Hayden has been appointed as the city’s next police chief. “John Hayden has served St. Louis with…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) A $10,000 reward is being offered to captured the so-called ‘Left Handed Bandit’ in Tuesday’s bank heist at Great Southern Bank in Ferguson. Investigators say the male suspect used an assault rifle to hold up the bank along the 10000 block of West Florissant Road. He made off with an undisclosed amount of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Efforts are being made to protect the homeless from the dangerous cold. Winter outreach and shelter operations are in effect for the City of St. Louis. Due to the anticipated below freezing temperatures these operations will remain through at least New Year’s Day. Individuals or families seeking shelter should please contact the…
By ILAN BEN ZION, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, Christians and muslims — and ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz’s plan, currently in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican gains and protests that erupted after a white officer’s acquittal in a black suspect’s shooting death were among the top 10 stories in Missouri in 2017. The full list is: RACE ISSUES DOMINATE AFTER OFFICER’S AQUITTAL IN ST. LOUIS POLICE SHOOTING The acquittal of a white police office in…