DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa National Guard says about 45 of its troops are returning from their mission to help flood victims in Missouri. The Guard announced December 31 that the troops would travel in 20 vehicles to High Ridge, Missouri, to provide water purification and other services. They’re scheduled to return Wednesday…
(KTRS/AP) – Missouri lawmakers are sitting down this hour to begin the 2016 legislative session. This year’s session starts with new leadership. House Speaker Todd Richardson says an ethics overhaul is a top priority. He took over after then Speaker John Diehl resigned after it was discovered he exchanged sexually explicit text messages with an intern.…
The Missouri Department of Transportation is searching for funding after voters rejected a sales tax in 2014
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Monsanto says it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales of biotech-corn seeds and other financial pressures. The additional layoffs will bring the St. Louis based company’s planned total cuts to 3,600 jobs, or about 16 percent of its workforce. In…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Rams owner Stan Kroenke claims that St. Louis is no longer a good home for the team. According to the “St. Louis Post Dispatch”, Kroenke informed the NFL, that despite “significant” investments in the team, game attendance “has been well below the League’s average.” He also addressed St. Louis’ plan for…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Sentencing is scheduled for April for a St. Louis health inspector who has admitted in federal court that he accepted a bribe from a grocery store owner in connection with his job. Fifty-year-old Kevin Huntspon of St. Louis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony bribery county. Huntspon admitted that a year…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Bosnian immigrant formerly from Illinois has been sentenced to three years in prison for giving money to terror groups in Iraq and Syria. Jasminka Ramic pleaded guilty in September to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in St. Louis. Ramic is among…
OAKVILLE, Mo. (AP) – Four relatives of a south St. Louis County woman fatally shot while sitting on her back porch last summer have filed a lawsuit against a neighbor they believe is responsible for her death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1PeDz0C ) the wrongful death lawsuit filed in St. Louis County Circuit Court…