Search continues for missing Missouri woman
TROY, Mo. (AP) – Crews continued searching for a Missouri woman after her husband was found shot to death of an apparent suicide. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Lt. Andy Binder also says a recording device belonging to Sussette Benhardt has led investigators “to conclude that she is a victim of assault by” her husband. The St. Louis…
Click appeals denial of Missouri unemployment benefits
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri is fighting a former assistant professor’s effort to collect unemployment benefits after she was fired for conduct during campus protests. Melissa Click, an assistant professor, was fired in February after a videotaped confrontation of her calling for “some muscle” to remove a student videographer from a protest…
Fentanyl worries changing way narcotics officers operate
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The street version of fentanyl blamed in the deaths of thousands of Americans is also threatening police officers, forcing changes in long-standing basics of drug investigations, from confiscations to testing to undercover operations. Overdose deaths have surged as drugs such as heroin, cocaine and counterfeit prescription pills are often laced with…
Missouri Gov. Nixon to veto gun rights bill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he’ll veto a sweeping gun rights bill passed by the Republican-led Legislature. Nixon, a Democrat, told The Associated Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch late Sunday he’ll veto the legislation Monday. The measure would allow most people to carry a concealed firearm, even if they haven’t…
St. Louis holds annual Pridefest parade in downtown
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Crowds lined the streets of downtown St. Louis for the 37th annual Pridefest parade. Mayor Francis Slay on Sunday walked in the lead of the parade, which also included the police chief, the fire chief, about 170 floats, drag queens and a marching band that played the Budweiser theme. Slay, who…
2 arrested in St. Louis for throwing eggs, shouting slurs
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police have arrested two men for reportedly throwing eggs and shouting racial slurs at a woman waiting for a bus. St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says two men in a white minivan were reported shouting slurs and throwing eggs at an African-American woman as she waited for a…
Rural Missouri county readies for eclipse visitors
PERRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A rural Missouri county along the Mississippi River is gearing up for visitors who will arrive next August in search of the best viewing of what some are calling the Great American Eclipse. The Aug. 21, 2017, event will be the first total solar eclipse to be seen from the mainland…
Missouri law aims to help teachers of traumatized children
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon this past week signed legislation to give Missouri teachers support in working with traumatized children. The new law calls for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to give intensive training to five schools in what’s called the trauma-informed approach. The idea is based on research on…