ST. LOUIS (AP) – Zach Miller caught two touchdown passes, including an 87-yard score that was Chicago’s longest play since 2010, and rookie Jeremy Langford also had two TDs, leading the Bears to a 37-13 victory over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. The Bears (4-5) improved to 3-1 on the road after their top…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is criticizing some University of Missouri student protesters as “pampered” and the faculty who are backing them as “tenured radicals.” The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1kxNiay ) reports that Kinder discussed the racial discord at the Columbia campus Saturday during a forum for Republican gubernatorial…
( KTRS ) A 32-year-old man has been arrested in connection with Saturday’s murder of a St. Charles man in Hazelwood. According to authorities, the homicide took place just after midnight in the 7500 block of Steve Avenue. Police found the body of 24 yr old Calvin Sharp in the driveway at the scene. After…
( KTRS ) Governor Bruce Rauner has postponed the November 18th budget summit because a family matter will prevent House Speaker Michael Madigan from attending. The change came shortly after Madigan, released a statement saying he needed to attend an out-of-state family funeral next week. The much-anticipated meeting will be the first time in months that…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland may end up paying pay back millions in tax refunds after the state’s highest court rejected the city’s appeal over its formula for taxing visiting professional athletes. The Ohio Supreme Court last week upheld a ruling that said the city’s so-called “jock tax” violates players’ due process rights. Former NFL…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a trooper has shot a suspect in the shoulder in a downtown St. Louis casino parking garage. Corporation Juston Wheetley says the shooting happened Saturday morning at the Lumiere Place Casino after the trooper was told that a man was driving erratically around the third…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A group of minority former faculty members at the University of Missouri says racial problems must be addressed. The MU Former Faculty of Color released a statement late Friday supporting students protesting what they say is a racist environment at the predominantly white Columbia campus. The statement is signed by…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global anxiety sparked by a series of deadly attacks in Paris by the Islamic State group has given new urgency to President Barack Obama’s upcoming talks with world leaders. The Islamic State group has taken root in Syria. The crisis in that country was already high on the agenda for the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A graduate student organization at the University of Missouri says new leadership hasn’t yet meant student demands have been fulfilled. But the Steering Committee of the Forum on Graduate Rights in a statement Friday said it looks forward to working with Interim University of Missouri System President Mike Middleton and Interim…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri coach Gary Pinkel will step down at the end of the season because of health reasons. Pinkel and the Tigers announced the decision Friday afternoon and noted Pinkel had been diagnosed with lymphoma in May. The stunning move comes days after his team threatened to boycott Saturday’s game against BYU…