WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month in the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb. The White House says Obama will visit along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a previously scheduled visit to Japan. Obama’s visit will…
Although Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley has said he won’t consider Garland’s nomination, the White House had him fill out the questionnaire anyway
WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 100,000 West Virginians will have their ballots counted in Tuesday’s election, even though the only competitive presidential primary race is on the Democratic side. That’s because of heavy participation in early voting. Nearly 101,000 people cast ballots before Tuesday, more than in any other year since early voting was allowed…
BALTIMORE (AP) – The Archdiocese of Baltimore has posted a list of 71 priests and religious brothers accused of sexual abuse. The Baltimore Sun reports that church officials say the move is a response to abuse survivors’ feedback. The archdiocese says it has received “credible” accusations about the listed clergymen during their lifetimes. Archdiocese spokesman…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Budweiser is seeking to change its label for the summer. According to Ad Age, Anheuser-Busch InBev is awaiting federal approval to change its current label to a more patriotic theme over the summer months. The label would swap Budweiser with the word America. It would also include patriotic phrases. Budweiser has…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) St. Charles County leaders are considering opting out of the annual sales tax holiday weekend this summer in efforts to combat the area’s heroin epidemic. A bill was introduced at the St. Charles County Council meeting Monday night to use the extra revenue to hire two additional narcotics detectives. Officials…
( KTRS ) Voters in Missouri will decide this fall whether to extend a sales tax that funds state parks and conservation projects. Gov. Jay Nixon announced Monday that the ‘one-tenth of a cent’ sales tax will appear on the November ballot. The tax is written into the state constitution, but voters must reauthorize it…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The mother of Michael Brown says she’ll never forget the day a police officer killed her son in Ferguson. Lezley McSpadden says she was taking a cigarette break from her grocery store job in Clayton, another St. Louis suburb, when a friend called to say someone had been shot near Canfield…
