JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Some University of Missouri students are expressing frustration with the campus chancellor after a Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic stopped performing abortions. Mizzou for Planned Parenthood organizer Dina van der Zalm says a Wednesday meeting with interim Chancellor Hank Foley to talk about how the school could help the clinic was…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri Alumni Association is responding to requests and forming a Black Alumni Network. The announcement follows the recent resignation of University System President Tim Wolfe after weeks of student protests over the racial climate on campus. Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin also resigned. Chelsea Drake Marks, a 2012…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis’ annual Thanksgiving Day parade is back. Last year’s parade was canceled due to the area’s civil unrest. The The 2015 Ameren Missouri Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to kick off Thursday at 8:45 a.m. at 7th and Market streets in downtown St. Louis. The parade is in its 31st…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Rams’ wide receiver Stedman Bailey is scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday after being shot. The NFL reports that Bailey was shot in Miami Gardens, Florida Tuesday night while sitting in a car with family. According to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport, someone pulled up and started shooting, per a source informed…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – The Martin Luther King Bridge connecting East St. Louis to St. Louis is set to reopen after being closed for construction. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the bridge crossing the Mississippi River is scheduled to reopen to traffic the week of Dec. 21. The bridge has been closed since…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Officials in a southwest Illinois community have decided to allow up to 75 residents to keep chickens within city limits. The Collinsville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve an ordinance allowing chickens in residential districts. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that the Collinsville Planning Commission and Mayor John Miller initially…
( KTRS ) Fifty years after a gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth and months after the woman learned her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins says Melanie Gilmore seeks to invalidate her 1983 adoption and re-establish…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An audio recording has captured a heated phone call between two Republican gubernatorial candidates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1OqBaSp ) reports that former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens is heard calling St. Louis businessman John Brunner a “weasel,” “coward,” “corrupt” and a liar on the Nov. 14 recording. Brunner spends much…
(KTRS) – St. Louis County Police say that the autopsy of 18-year-old Amonderez Green shows his only wound was a self-inflicted gunshot below his chin. Police were called to a Ferguson home October 28 on reports that someone, later identified as Green, may be suicidal. When officers arrived, Green ignored their commands. He eventually pulled…
