JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker says President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to slash corporate income taxes could create momentum to eliminate those taxes completely in the state. Republican state Sen. Will Kraus is proposing phasing out Missouri’s 6.25 percent corporate income tax by 2019. Kraus told The Associated Press that the goal is…
( KTRS ) Investigators are searching for the suspect in a fatal hit and run. Police say the incident took place early Sunday morning around 12:30 am near the intersection of Jefferson and Chouteau Ave. The 38 yr old male victim was taken to the hospital but later died from his injuries. At this time…
SUNSET HILLS, Mo. (AP) – Police say a gun accidentally discharged in a suburban St. Louis Home Depot restroom, injuring an employee. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://j.mp/2gB92Dl) the weapon discharged Sunday in a restroom at a Home Depot in Sunset Hills. Police say the employee was taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Enrollment in the four-campus University of Missouri system increased 19 percent over a decade before losing ground after protests at the Columbia campus and a drop in high school graduates in the state. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that enrollment across the system increased from 48,434 in fall 2005 to 57,785…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A jury has convicted a man of shooting two police officers during a 2015 protest in Ferguson, Missouri. The St. Louis County jury deliberated about two hours Thursday night before finding Jeffrey Williams guilty of two counts of assault, three counts of armed criminal action and one count of shooting from…
