Professor’s Group Finds Fault In Firing Of Mizzou Professor
Columbia, MO (KTRS) A national professor’s group says its investigation has found that the University of Missouri bowed to political pressure when it fired an assistant professor over her role last year in a race-related student protest. The American Association of University Professors released its report late Wednesday night. An association committee will recommend in…
Illinois Leaders Continue To Fight For NGA Headquarters
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Illinois leaders continue to aggressively fight the preliminary decision to relocate a federal spy agency to north St. Louis, rather than to a site in southern Illinois. Both of Illinois’ U.S. senators and three House members from that part of the state have criticized the plan by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency…
Bayer Offers To Buy St. Louis Based Monsanto
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) German based drug company Bayer is making an offer to buy Monsanto. Leverkusen-based Bayer said in a short statement Thursday that its executives had met recently with their Monsanto counterparts “to privately discuss a negotiated acquisition of Monsanto Company.” Bayer, whose farm business produces seeds as well as compounds to kill…
Eastern Missouri man admits drunkenly causing deadly wreck
UNION, Mo. (AP) – An eastern Missouri man faces sentencing next month after having admitted in court that he recklessly caused a 2014 car accident that killed a teenager waiting for a school bus. The Washington Missourian reports that 24-year-old Ethan Humphries of Londell has pleaded guilty in Franklin County to an involuntary manslaughter count.…