ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A restored St. Louis prairie of native grasses and flowers is in bloom, but the nature reserve’s conservation is threatened by inaction and invasive plants. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that biologists discovered the 25-acre prairie hidden at Calvary Cemetery in the 1990s, protected from agricultural development. Erin Shank is an urban…
CHESTERFIELD, MO (AP) — The former chief financial officer at Columbia Public Schools has admitted to stealing thousands of dollars from band boosters at a suburban St. Louis high school. The Columbia Daily-Tribune reports that Anna Munson pleaded guilty Thursday in St. Louis County District Court to receiving stolen property. Charging documents say she began making…
LYON, France (AP) — The wife of the former Interpol president who is being detained in China on bribery charges says she’s been contacted by Chinese diplomats, who have told her they’re holding a letter from him for her. Grace Meng says, however, that she’ll only agree to meet Chinese officials if a lawyer and…
SINGAPORE (AP) — The United States and South Korea are scrapping another major military exercise this year, a Pentagon official said Friday, citing a push for diplomatic progress with North Korea. The top Pentagon spokeswoman, Dana W. White, said Washington and Seoul are suspending an air exercise known as Vigilant Ace “to give the diplomatic…
FLORISSANT, MO (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suburban St. Louis student after finding a loaded gun and a razor inside the student’s backpack. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the student was taken into custody Thursday at McCluer North Senior High School in Florissant. Police said in a news release that another student alerted school…
ST. CHARLES, MO (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison in the 1984 beating death of an 84-year-old woman during a suspected burglary. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 56-year-old Brian McBenge was sentenced Thursday for second-degree murder in the death of Eleonora Knoernschild, of St. Charles. Her death went unsolved…
(Associate Press) St. Louis Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley used Thursday night’s debate to paint Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill as too liberal for the increasingly red state of Missouri. McCaskill hammered her challenger over his positions on health care and said Trump’s wall was unnecessary. The two squared-off about Federal Tax-cuts and pre-existing healthcare medical…
By SUZAN FRASER , Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish official says investigators are assessing the possibility whether the remains of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been taken to a forest in the outskirts of Istanbul or to another city, if and after he was killed inside the diplomatic mission earlier this…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A high-level meeting to lay out security plans for Afghanistan’s upcoming parliamentary elections had just concluded when an elite Afghan guard turned his gun Thursday on the departing delegation in an attack that killed the powerful Kandahar police chief but missed the top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. Scott Miller.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Winter looks wet and especially mild for much of the country, thanks to a weak El Nino brewing, U.S. meteorologists said. The National Weather Service on Thursday predicted a warmer than normal winter for the northern and western three-quarters of the nation. The greatest chance for warmer than normal winter weather is in Alaska,…