ST. CHARLES (KTRS) A person of interest is in custody in Wednesday’s shooting near Francis Howell High School. The St. Charles County SWAT team was again searching this morning for a suspect in yesterday’s shooting of a teacher who was jogging near Francis Howell high School. St. Charles County Police Public Affairs Officer Val Joyner says…
Trial date set for next September in Pamela Hupp murder case St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) A new date for Pam Hupp’s murder trial has been scheduled after several delays. On Wednesday, a judge set a trial date for September 11th of 2018 after Hupp’s defense team requested more time to prepare. Hupp’s attorney say the…
NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Lauer says he is “truly sorry” to anyone he is hurt by his words and actions in his first public comments since being fired by NBC. Lauer’s former “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie read a statement from Lauer at the top of Thursday’s show, a day he was fired by…
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) President Donald Trump visited the St. Louis area on Wednesday to drum up support for the G-O-P tax overhaul plan. Trump delivered his remarks to about a thousand supporters at the St. Charles Convention Center. The President laid out his selling points for the plan, which he claims will benefit the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) Authorities say a contractor for the Missouri Department of Transportation was electrocuted while working along Interstate 44 in St. Louis County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the man was operating a boom truck underneath a power line Wednesday morning in eastbound lanes of the interstate. Patrol spokesman Dallas Thompson said the truck…
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News says longtime “Today” show host Matt Lauer has been fired for “inappropriate sexual behavior.” Lauer’s co-host Savannah Guthrie made the announcement at the top of Wednesday’s “Today” show. Guthrie read a statement from NBC News chairman Andy Lack, stating that the company has received a detailed complaint from a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is celebrating the Senate Budget Committee’s passage of the Republican tax plan, which will advance the sweeping tax package to the full Senate. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Tuesday that President Donald Trump is applauding the committee for “taking an important step toward passing historic tax…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri has received a temporary federal waiver that will allow state residents to board airplanes and enter federal installations using their current driver’s licenses and identification cards. The Missouri Department of Revenue announced Tuesday the state will have until at least October 2018 to comply with a federal REAL ID…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Joplin man who was appointed to the Missouri Board of Education and then blocked from voting on the fate of the state education commission is suing Gov. Eric Greitens. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cole County, John Sumners asks the court to determine if he remains a board…
By GREGORY KATZ and JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — It will be a spring wedding on the glorious grounds of Windsor Castle for love-struck Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Royal officials — thrilled with the international response to news of the couple’s engagement, and the positive reaction to their first ever TV appearance —…