COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri has received an $8 million gift for its proposed football facility project at Memorial Stadium. The university’s athletic department said Wednesday the donor wished to remain anonymous. Missouri has raised about $67 million of the estimated $75 million needed for the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex near the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal appeals court has ordered a judge to revisit her refusal to throw out a $100 million lawsuit by a man whose conviction in a Missouri sports editor’s death was overturned after his nearly a decade in prison. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided Wednesday with six Columbia…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a St. Louis attorney accused of misusing $2,500 of his client’s money. Sean E. Bryant lost his license Tuesday. Authorities say Bryant was representing a man in 2015 who was jailed in St. Louis County for probation violation in a case involving late child-support payments.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Democratic Party chairman is claiming that Republican Eric Greitens broke campaign finance laws by using a list of charity donors to raise money in his campaign for governor. Roy Temple filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against Greitens, a former Navy SEAL officer who founded a veterans’ charity called…
Milan, MO (KTRS) Six horses and two mules are being cared for by the Humane Society of Missouri after being rescued from a property in north central Missouri on Monday. Officials with the Humane Society say the animals were living on one acre of land barren of all forage at the property in Milan in…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) One person is dead following a shooting in north St. Louis. Police were called around 7 a.m. Wednesday after the victim was found shot to death behind the Goody Goody Diner in 5900 block Natural Bridge. There’s no word of any arrests or a motive. The victim’s identity hasn’t been released.…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A fallen St. Louis County police officer is being honored. During Monday night’s county council meeting, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger signed an executive order to rename Clydesdale Park in south county to the Officer Blake C. Snyder Memorial Park. This was in response to an online petition that…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Ninety-year-old rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry is set to release his first new studio album in more than 35 years. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Berry’s album, titled “Chuck,” will be available in 2017. The album was recorded in St. Louis-area studios and will feature mostly original work by Berry,…
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri University of Science and Technology has suspended the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity after two students were injured during an event last week at the fraternity house. The university said in a news release Monday that campus police were notified Sunday and that an investigation is underway. The release offered…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Several thousand Springfield Clinic patients insured through Illinois’ health plans will be asked to pay hundreds of dollars in co-payments, deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs the clinic hasn’t tried to collect for the past year and a half. The State Journal-Register reports that the clinic usually waits to bill patients their…