COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri is expecting its smallest class of incoming freshmen in nearly two decades at its Columbia campus. The university said in a statement Friday it projects about 4,000 freshmen will enroll at the school in August. That’s a 14-percent drop, down by about 700 students from last year.…
NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) — As rivers recede across much of Missouri after extensive flooding, victims will be able to get recovery help from response centers being set up in the state. The Missouri State Emergency Management Agency says it is helping coordinate what it calls “one-stop shops” for recovery services at makeshift resource centers. SEMA says…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A U.S. district judge on Friday ruled to block a new Missouri ban on contributions between political action committees and other limits on political donations that voters approved in November. Attorneys for the state had argued donations from PAC to PAC could lead to corruption and enable donors to skirt…
Florissant, MO (KTRS) A longtime north county tradition is underway. The 55th annual Valley of the Flowers festival kicked off in Florissant on Friday. This year’s theme is “Wonders Of The World.” The event features a variety of activities, including carnival rides, food, booths, Gardeners of Florissant plant sale, a beer garden, and the Grand Parade.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A prominent Ferguson protester is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say Edward Crawford, Jr. was riding in the back seat of a car late Thursday night in the Hyde Park neighborhood of north St. Louis. Two women were also in the car and claim Crawford reached for something…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man has died after his vehicle was swept off a road near a flooded creek in Missouri, marking the 10th death blamed on flooding in the Midwest, authorities said Friday. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the 69-year-old man was trying to cross a flooded road across Dry Fork Creek…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) One of two children injured in a crash involving a police pursuit of a stolen vehicle that ended at St. Louis Lambert International Airport last month has died. St. Louis County Police say nine-year-old Caleb Lee of the 2500 block of Rustic Drive in St. Louis was sitting in the rear of his family’s…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The cause of a fire that damaged two businesses in south St. Louis is being investigated. Firefighters were called to a fire at a strip mall on Virginia Avenue at Delor Thursday night. Ho Wah Chinese Restaurant and the Southside Discount Market were heavily damaged. No injuries were reported.
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Residents in Valley Park are being allowed back into their homes after city leaders lifted a mandatory evacuation order. City leaders lifted that order Friday morning as flood waters receded from the Meramec River. Clean up begins now, especially with the removal of sandbags. Those who can volunteer with sandbag…
ST. LOUIS (AP) Residents of areas hit hard by flooding in eastern Missouri are getting some good news: River levels are dropping, some evacuated residents can return home and a busy interstate is reopening. Water levels along the Meramec River on Thursday prompted the mayor of Valley Park to lift evacuation orders for levee-protected areas…