JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says he’ll stop funding cuts for foster-care families that he approved earlier this year. In a Thursday Facebook post, Gov. Greitens said cutting aid to families who care for foster children was not his intention. Greitens last month signed a budget that included an across-the-board 1.5 percent cut in…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Flags will be at half-staff Friday on all state government buildings in St. Louis to honor Fire Captain John Kemper, who died July 12 from injuries suffered battling a blaze over the Fourth of July holiday. He was 59. Missouri Governor Eric Greitens ordered all U.S. and Missouri flags on St. Louis’ state…
ILLINOIS (AP) The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus reported in Illinois for 2017. A Will County resident in his 60s became ill at the end of June. Will County is located in northeastern Illinois. Missouri has already found mosquitoes that tested positive for the virus this…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The FBI is helping St. Louis City detectives after an increase in carjackings and robberies. The FBI has “a lot of forensic electronics that we don’t have,” says St. Louis Police Captain Steven Mueller. Mueller says one advantage the agency has is the capability to enhance a number of surveillance videos which could…
(St. Louis) KTRS News The FBI has “a lot of forensic electronics that we don’t have,” says St. Louis Police Captain Steven Mueller. Mueller says one advantage the agency has is the capability to enhance a number of surveillance videos which could lead to a break in a rash of robberies, assaults and carjackings. The…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Big-name Missouri Republicans and donors have coalesced around Attorney General Josh Hawley as their favored candidate to challenge veteran Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in 2018, which would set up a marquee contest between a wily incumbent and an up-and-coming political novice in a state that has trended conservative. McCaskill…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS ) A Democrat state lawmaker from St. Louis is asking for a state investigation into conditions at the St. Louis Medium security facility, otherwise known as the workhouse. State Representative Josh Peters, in whose district the jail is located, says conditions at the St. Louis workhouse could be unconstitutional. He says inmates have…