COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri’s flagship campus will eliminate nearly 200 jobs as part of an effort to cut into a $49 million budget shortfall. The job reductions are among several moves to balance the budget for the Columbia campus for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Details were announced in…
LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — The parents of three children who died along with two of their cousins in a southern Missouri mobile home fire said they still aren’t able to grasp what has happened. The children died Wednesday in a mobile home fire in Lebanon. A 20-year-old woman who was the mother of the other…
By SONIA PEREZ D. and MARK STEVENSON , Associated Press SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala (AP) — Rescuers suspended search and recovery efforts Thursday at villages devastated by the eruption of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire, leaving people with missing loved ones distraught and prompting some to do the risky work themselves with rudimentary tools. Conred,…
By ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading into his North Korea summit with characteristic bravado, President Donald Trump said Thursday that “attitude” is more important than preparation as he looks to negotiate an accord with Kim Jong Un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Preparing to depart Washington…
ST. LOUIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jun 7, 2018– Bayer successfully completed the acquisition of Monsanto on Thursday. Shares in the U.S. company will no longer be traded on the New York Stock Exchange, with Bayer now the sole owner of Monsanto Company. Monsanto shareholders are being paid 128 U.S. dollars per share. J.P. Morgan assisted Bayer with processing…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The agreement between former Governor Eric Greitens and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office in the computer tampering case has been unsealed. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner previously released most the stipulations of the agreement to drop the charge alleging Greitens misused a charity donor list to raise money for…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The Missouri House committee that had been investigating former Gov. Eric Greitens has dropped an attempt to get records related to a nonprofit group that supported him. A Cole County judge had scheduled a hearing Thursday on whether to still enforce a House subpoena for records from Greitens’ campaign and a…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white former St. Louis police officer whose acquittal in the death of a black suspect set off weeks of protests filed suit Wednesday against the prosecutor who charged him and a police investigator. Jason Stockley’s lawsuit alleges defamation and malicious prosecution. The lawsuit names…
By MARK STEVENSON and SONIA PEREZ D. , Associated Press SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala (AP) — Emergency crews cautiously resumed search-and-rescue operations Wednesday in towns and villages devastated by the eruption of Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire, but time was quickly running out to find survivors of a disaster that killed more than 75 people with…
By PAUL ELIAS , Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The leader of the successful recall of a Northern California judge for an unpopular sexual assault sentence warned that the results show women’s rights and the #MeToo movement are now a potent political force that politicians ignore at their own peril. “The broader message of…