Overland, MO (KTRS) The group “Forward Through Ferguson” is sharing its State of the Report results with the community. On Thursday night the first of three town halls was held in Overland. About 50 people turned out for the event to learn about the progress on the recommendation made by the Ferguson Commission. Yinka Faleti,…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived on a surprise visit to Afghanistan’s war-shattered capital on Friday, the U.S. command in Afghanistan said, just days after a suicide bomber killed 21 people in the city and wounded 90 others. As helicopters patrolled the skies over Kabul, Mattis arrived accompanied by Gen. Joseph…
(KTRS) Two brothers are killed after reportedly leading several Metro East police Departments on a chase in a stolen car. 28-year-old Rodney L. Williams… and 21-year-old Thomas C. Williams from Alton were pronounced dead at the scene. The brothers wrecked into a tanker truck on route 111 at New Poag Road…around 10:30 Wednesday night…111 was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will urge the defeat of Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill during a campaign rally next week in her Missouri home state. Trump’s campaign says he will rally supporters Sept. 13 in Cape Girardeau and urge them to replace McCaskill with Republican Josh Hawley, the state attorney general who has Trump’s…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Supporters of opening a new river port in central Missouri are one step closer to their goal. The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission on Wednesday approved an application to create the Heartland Port Authority of Central Missouri near Jefferson City. The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports the commission’s decision mean the project can…
NEW YORK (AP) — Burt Reynolds, whose credits included acclaimed films such as “Deliverance” and commercial hits like “Smokey and the Bandit,” has died. The handsome film and television star died at age 82, according to his agent Todd Eisner. No other details were immediately available Thursday. During a long, erratic career, Reynolds starred in…
CINCINNATI (AP) — A gunman opened fire Thursday morning in a building in the heart of Cincinnati in an attack that left him and three other people dead, police said. The shooting sent people scrambling across the city’s Fountain Square amid cries of “shooter!” It happened at a 30-story building, home to the corporate headquarters…
ALBANY, NY (AP) — New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has subpoenaed all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of an investigation into the handling of sex abuse allegations. A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press the subpoenas went out Thursday.…
SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, CA (AP) — Truckers abandoned big-rigs and motorists screamed in fear as they came dangerously close to an explosive wildfire that shut down about 45 miles of a major California interstate near the Oregon border that authorities were desperately trying to reopen. In a video, a passenger in a vehicle screams: “Oh…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — A judge has ruled that the University of Missouri’s campus ban on concealed guns doesn’t conflict with state law. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Circuit Judge Jeff Harris’s ruling on Wednesday rejected arguments that the ban violates a law protecting state employees from prosecution for having concealed guns in their parked…