Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is investigating why a St. Charles County polling place opened 90 minutes late for this month’s primary election. Ashcroft said Monday that doors at the polling place in O’Fallon remained locked 90 minutes past ...
Read More »Teen killed soon after posting he was glad to make it to 17
A St. Louis teenager posted online that he was glad to make it to his 17th birthday after all he’d been through. Just over an hour later, he was fatally shot in the head. Armond Latimore was shot outside a ...
Read More »Plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education honored
Springfield is celebrating a man whose civil rights case changed the course of American history. Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Rev. Oliver Brown — the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ...
Read More »Born out of the financial crisis, bull market nears record
The bull market in U.S. stocks is about to become the longest in history. If stocks don’t drop significantly by the close of trading Wednesday, the bull market that began in March 2009 will have lasted nine years, five months ...
Read More »Missouri residents fear funding cuts for disabled
Funding cuts to in-home care for the disabled could force some Missouri residents into nursing homes, advocates said. About $8 million of the $50 million the state Legislature initially cut last year has been restored. The cuts affected more than ...
Read More »Drought takes toll on Missouri farmers’ crops, cattle
Parts of Missouri are so dry that corn crops are suffering and hay for cattle is in short supply, with water becoming increasingly scarce, experts say. Missouri has had below-average rainfall since winter. The U.S. Drought Monitor map shows that ...
Read More »School district embraces gender-neutral bathrooms
A school district that garnered national attention when a transgender student was crowned homecoming queen in 2015 has installed gender-neutral restrooms at two new elementary schools and in some existing locations. The individual bathroom stalls at Rising Hill Elementary and ...
Read More »Kansas and Missouri hope to attract nearly 700 USDA jobs
Kansas and Missouri officials hope to attract the nearly 700 well-paying USDA jobs that are being moved out of Washington D.C. Kansas and Missouri hope to land the jobs for the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and ...
Read More »PepsiCo buys SodaStream for $3.2 billion
PepsiCo bought carbonated drink maker SodaStream for $3.2 billion on Monday, a move the beverage giant hopes will further help it adjust as consumers drink less traditional soda and opt more for flavored waters and other drinks. The deal is ...
Read More »Sex scandals fester at unhealthy organizations, experts say
Of all the horrific details contained in the Pennsylvania grand jury report on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, one sentence stands out: “The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid ‘scandal.'” When sex-abuse cases dominate ...
Read More »US firms to Trump: Don’t raise tariffs on more Chinese goods
Fishermen off the Alaskan coast. A Florida maker of boat trailers. A building-materials distributor in Tennessee. Those and hundreds of other American businesses are delivering the same plea to President Donald Trump as he considers imposing tariffs on nearly 40 ...
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