JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A state report says Missouri businesses saw a net growth of more than 8,700 private-sector employers in 2015. The report from the Missouri Department of Economic Development says that’s a 5 percent gain over the previous year. The report was released last week. The Jefferson City News Tribune reports (http://j.mp/2di1A05…
HAZELWOOD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a teenage driver in suburban St. Louis struck another vehicle and then spun into people who were waiting for a homecoming parade to begin, injuring several of them. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Hazelwood police say none the eight people who were hurt in Saturday’s crash suffered life-threatening…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – Audits of East St. Louis Townhsip government over the past four years failed to mention three of its supervisors charged about $280,000 to taxpayer-supported credit cards. The Belleville News-Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/2d1lWJe) the charges were made without the knowledge or approval of the township board of trustees. The Belleville auditing…
( KTRS ) Authorities in Dent County are looking for a missing 13 yr old girl. Sheriff’s say that 13 yr old Harley Hopper hasn’t be seen, or heard from since last Thursday when she left her home in Salem MO, in the early hours of the morning. She is described as a white female,…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 58-year-old man caught hauling hundreds of pounds of marijuana through southwest Missouri faces about four months in prison. Ashot Grigoryan entered a modified Alford plea to drug possession with intent to distribute after authorities found about 800 pounds (360 kilograms) of marijuana in his truck in 2015. An Alford plea…
( KTRS ) Authorities report that a missing teen girl, and her new born son, have been found safe in West Virginia. 13 yr old Katherine Derleth, and her infant son, went missing last Sunday. Police believed that they had been taken by the girls step-father, 39 yr old Christopher Derleth, and could be headed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has issued minimum standards for municipal courts in response to accusations that courts in the St. Louis area routinely violate the rights of the poor. Some have decried the practice of holding defendants in jail who aren’t able to pay fines or bail and sometimes have to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The operator of a suburban St. Louis landfill that is the source of a strong odor due to an underground fire has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuits filed by nearly three dozen nearby residents. Bridgeton Landfill LLC announced the settlement Friday with 34 residents. Their lawsuits claimed that they…
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