By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on Thursday on a 231-188 vote…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count now stands at 203 after four deadly shootings in north city. Police say a 25-year-old man was gunned down early Tuesday night at the intersection of Page and Belt. There’s no word on a motive or of any arrests. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. Then at…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Over a hundred dogs and cats are being nursed back to health at the Humane Society of Missouri after being rescued from a hoarding situation in western Missouri. On Wednesday night, the HSMO’s Animal Cruelty Task Force rescued 84 dogs and 17 cats from a property in Bates County. This is the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) J.C. Penney has announced it will close its Hampton Village Shopping Center store … which has operated for almost 70 years … next month. None of the other J.C. Penney stores locally are affected. In a statement to KTRS News, the retailer says the Hampton Village J.C. Penney will close January 21, and…
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House narrowly passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown Thursday, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and national security to next year. The vote was 231-188 with Democrats criticizing Republicans’ inability to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Workers in downtown St. Louis say a man who died in a portable toilet had been living in it on and off for weeks. Police confirmed that the body found Wednesday is believed to be that of Grover Perry. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that foul play isn’t suspected. Frank Perry,…
NEW YORK (AP) — The stalking victim of a former St. Louis journalist sentenced in New York to five years in prison for bomb threats to Jewish centers is urging more attention be paid to domestic violence as a tool to fight terrorism. New York social worker Francesca Rossi spoke at the sentencing of Juan…
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans early Thursday unveiled a new, stripped-down spending bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend and allow quarreling lawmakers to punt most of their unfinished business into the new year. The bill would stave off a government shutdown through Jan. 19 and permit lawmakers to head…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers should make it easier for firefighters to get workers’ compensation, Gov. Eric Greitens said Wednesday during a visit to the St. Louis Fire Academy. The bill by Republican Rep. Nick Schroer would make firefighters and other first responders eligible for workers’ compensation for illnesses…
By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a victory lap so irresistible that Speaker Paul Ryan did it twice. When the House approved the $1.5 trillion Republican tax bill Tuesday and again Wednesday with minor changes, it was a beaming Ryan who emphatically pounded the gavel, announced the vote and applauded his bellowing…