ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal grand jury in St. Louis has accused a woman of impersonating a nurse and spending three months at a hospital’s intensive-care unit and with elderly psychiatric patients. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 35-year-old Samantha Rivera is charged with health care fraud and identity theft. Authorities say she has lived…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Thousands of low-income seniors and disabled residents could be spared from cuts to their in-home care and nursing services as a result of legislation passed in the final minutes of Missouri’s annual legislative session Friday. But thousands of minimum-wage workers in St. Louis could lose a recent pay raise because…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol is turning over information to the state attorney general for a review of its involvement with a trucking technology company. The Highway Patrol on Thursday announced it’s cooperating with Attorney General Josh Hawley. The patrol and the Missouri Department of Transportation are under scrutiny for…
HERMANN, MO (AP) A $3.5 million Lotto prize sold in central Missouri in November has now expired, and two other unclaimed prizes purchased in Missouri are set to expire soon, too. The Missouri Lottery says someone purchased the winning $3.5 million Lotto ticket on Nov. 12 at Hermann Fuel Mart. The period to claim the prize…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis brewing company is joining in the excitement of the much anticipated total solar eclipse this summer. Schlafly Beer has announced plans to commemorate this summer’s solar eclipse with a special Path of Totality pack for its Helles-style lager. Beginning in June, consumers can purchase the special edition, black…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Clayco Incorporated’s real estate division, CRG, has joined with the founder of Build-A-Bear, Maxine Clark, to transform the former St. Luke’s Hospital located at 5535 Delmar Boulevard into a space for St. Louis social initiatives and institutions. Called the Delmar DivINe, Clark says the project will provide a headquarters location to not-for-profit organizations…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Kansas City, Missouri, man to be detained without bond on a passport fraud charge while the FBI investigates what the judge suggested was the native Somali’s “long-held goal to leave this country to join a foreign terrorist organization.” Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning Netflix consumers about at email phishing scam across the St. Louis and Southeast Missouri region. The warning appears three years after a BBB alert of bogus emails reported by two residents of Southeast Missouri. A new wave of fraudulent emails was falsely claimed by…
