KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A children’s hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, has approved the $300,000 purchase of a third, deluxe 3-D printer to crank out more models faster. Children’s Mercy Hospital radiologist Neil Mardis said at a presentation Thursday that he thinks 3-D printing will be a routine tool in medicine within five years.…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois’ department of revenue says more than 300 state employees, including two lawmakers, are delinquent in paying their taxes for the 2014 calendar year. Department of Revenue officials tell the Chicago Tribune the 312 state workers are getting their salaries but still haven’t filed returns for calendar year 2014, which were due…
( KTRS ) A man has been charged with assault for trying to run over two police officers with a car this weekend. Authorities say 23-year-old Edward Montgomery attempted to strike down the officers Friday night near an apartment complex on Goodfellow in north St. Louis. The officers were reportedly responding to call for shot…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are considering a bill to give student journalists more freedom by restricting the types of content school administrators could censor. The bill passed out of the House in March and is awaiting debate in the Senate. The Kansas City Star reports current law allows administrators to censor anything…
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL (KTRS)Â The Major Case Squad says a suspect has been charged with reckless homicide in the death of man whose body was found lying by the side of a road near Madison, Illinois, last week. Authorities say 24-year-old Terrance Smith of Cahokia has also been charged with aggravated fleeing and trying to elude a…
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Jerry Nachtigal, a former journalist who became spokesman for three consecutive Missouri governors, has died. The Miller Funeral Home said Nachtigal died of cancer Sunday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was 57. Nachtigal was Gov. Mel Carnahan’s spokesman in October 2000 when it fell to him to confirm that Carnahan; the governor’s son,…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Local civic leader, philanthropist and widow of the late Des Lee … Mary Ann Lee … has passed away of natural causes. She was 90. In 1945, Lee married Jack C. Taylor, who 12 years later founded Executive Leasing, now Enterprise Holdings. Their marriage ended in 1977, but right up until Taylor’s death…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis police are looking for a gunman who leaned out of a car’s sunroof and fired shots at several people, including a police officer. One woman was struck in the leg and suffered what police call non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting happened Monday morning. Police say an officer at a traffic light saw the man…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) It’s the end of an era in St. Louis. Monday is Mayor Francis Slay’s last full day in office. To mark the occasion, staffers hung a portrait of Mayor Slay at City Hall during a ceremony Monday afternoon. Slay, who is St. Louis’s longest serving mayor, announced last year his decision not to seek another…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis County police are asking for the public’s help in locating two suspects wanted for an armed robbery of a QuikTrip store this weekend in the 10-thousand block of Page. Police say the robbery happened about 4 a.n. Sunday. Two suspects entered QuikTrip, both wearing masks, and stole an undisclosed amount of cash and…