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 (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…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Bobby Ryan scored twice, including the game-winner at 2:33 of overtime, to lift the Ottawa Senators to a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Monday night. Mike Hoffman also scored and Andrew Hammond made 36 saves for the Senators, who had lost three straight and been shut out in…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican-led Missouri legislative panel says the Senate should launch contempt proceedings against the leader of a St. Louis-region Planned Parenthood. The report comes after Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri didn’t comply with a subpoena sent to President and CEO Mary Kogut. The Senate Interim…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The St. Louis Rams have filed an application to relocate to the Los Angeles area after 21 seasons in the Midwest. The franchise currently has a year-to-year lease with the Edward Jones Dome. Owner Stan Kroenke is part of a group planning a $1.8 billion stadium in Inglewood, California, and the…
( KTRS ) Motorists returning to work Monday will have smoother and drier commute this week. Interstates 70, 44, 55 and more than 40 other state roads in the region are now open after flooding forced MoDOT to close them after Christmas. Waters from area creeks and rivers caused dozens of roads to close in…
( KTRS ) As MoDOT works to re-open several highways around the area, public transportation is also being affected by high flood waters. MetroBus Director of communications Patti Beck reports several bus services will be restricted or not running Thursday morning. They are – · 40X I-55 Express · 410X Eureka Express · #61 Chambers…
( KTRS ) Drivers are seeing major delays as Interstate 55 is down to one lane in both directions near the Meramac River, to help flood fighting efforts overnight. The Post dispatch reports that authorities have been directing traffic onto Route 141 then over the Lemay Bridge north, then to Butler Hill rd and back onto…