ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri’s lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax will rise if either of two ballot measures passes Nov. 8. Amendment 3 would add 60 cents to Missouri’s 17-cent-per-pack tobacco tax, with the money going to early childhood education. Proposition A would raise the tobacco tax 23 cents for transportation projects. In a twist, tobacco companies…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis animal shelter operator says more than a dozen dogs died because of a virus outbreak. Stray Rescue owner Randy Grim told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that 17 dogs – mostly puppies – died because of the distemper outbreak Saturday at Stray Rescue. Distemper is a virus that can…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri voters will be the first in the nation to decide whether to amend their state constitution to prohibit sales taxes from being expanded to services. The proposal on the Nov. 8 ballot is a backlash against efforts in various states to extend sales taxes from consumer goods to services…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Philadelphia TV station has found at least three instances in which votes were cast in recent elections under the names of people who were long dead. WPVI-TV dug through a decade’s worth of Philadelphia’s election and death records. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has warned of fraud at Philadelphia polls. He’s…
University City, MO  (KTRS)   Vice-President Joe Biden will be in the St. Louis area today to stump for Jason Kander in his run for the U.S. Senate. Biden is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m.  at the Pageant in the Delmar Loop. It’s part of a get-out-the-vote effort. The race between Kander and his…
St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  Two men are dead following a shooting in north St. Louis. Police were called around 11 p.m. Thursday to the 4500 block of  Margaretta Avenue.  That’s where police say the body of one of the victims was found outside of a home. Upon searching the area, another victim was found…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of extended talcum powder use. The jury ruling Thursday ended the trial that…
A St. Louis man has been sentenced to nearly 2 decades in prison for robbing a farm supply store. 49 yr old Rodney Mathes was sentenced Thursday to 19 yrs and and seven months in federal prison. He was charged with breaking into the Rural King in Swansea, Illnois, with another man back in January…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating after a man was fatally shot in the Penrose neighborhood late Thursday night. The man was found dead on the 4800 block of Margaretta Avenue shortly after 11 p.m. The victims identity has not been released at this time. No further details are available.
