Demolition at the dilapidated and toxic Carter Carburetor plant in north St. Louis is finally beginning, under the watchful eye of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Contractors were starting the process Monday of taking down the massive brick plant that ...
Read More »Tardy tax filers risk loss of health care subsidies
Sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law doesn’t start for another couple of months, but the next few days are crucial for hundreds of thousands of customers who risk losing financial aid when they renew coverage for 2016. ...
Read More »Missouri unemployment benefits bill looks set for override
Missouri’s Republican-led Senate appears to have enough support to override Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that would enact one of the nation’s strictest limits for unemployment benefits. Although the legality of the veto override remains in doubt, ...
Read More »Kansas City minimum wage petition approved for ballot
The Kansas City Council has agreed to put a citizen group’s minimum wage petition on the November ballot. The petition seeks a local minimum wage increase to $15 per hour by 2020. The council had to authorize the ballot question ...
Read More »Agency won’t open probe into Toyota unintended acceleration
U.S. safety regulators have rejected an electrical engineer’s request to investigate low-speed unintended acceleration in Toyota and Lexus cars. The petition was the latest in a string of claims that Toyota vehicles can accelerate on their own dating to 2009. ...
Read More »US safety agency probes Honda Accord air bag failures
U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating reports that air bags on some older Honda Accords may not inflate in a crash. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers about 384,000 cars from the 2008 model year. The ...
Read More »Comcast reveals subscriber in online comments case
Comcast Cable Communications has given a northern Illinois politician the identity of an Internet service subscriber whose account was used to post an anonymous comment online suggesting the politician molests children. Comcast turned over the name of the subscriber on ...
Read More »High court issues contradictory majority opinions on same day
The families of five people who died at a Chillicothe hospital in 2002 said the hospital hid for years suspicions that a respiratory therapist intentionally killed the patients. The mother of Belinda Beisly, who was shot to death in 2009 ...
Read More »Officials don’t want Guantanamo Bay detainees in Kansas
Several elected officials from Kansas oppose moving detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Fort Leavenworth, citing the potential economic impact and security. The outcry came after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter ordered a site survey at Fort Leavenworth, as well as Charleston, ...
Read More »Clinton facing fresh worries in Congress over emails
Hillary Rodham Clinton is facing fresh worries among congressional Democrats about her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state, as new polls signal that the inquiry is taking a toll on her presidential campaign. The ...
Read More »Cheating site logged federal subscribers with sensitive jobs
U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has ...
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