PONTIAC, Ill. - On June 28, 1968, Pontiac City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Jerrold Potter and his wife, Carrie, boarded a chartered flight from Kankakee, Illinois, to Dallas for a national Lions Club conference. He disappeared mid-flight in the skies over central Missouri. The Potters joined 21 other passengers and four flight crew that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. "Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” he said [...]
Demonstrators took to the streets of St. Louis Friday night. Hundreds of protestors, upset with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to outlaw abortion, marched near Planned Parenthood in the Central West End.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case Friday, effectively ending the federal constitution protections for abortion in a ruling powered by the court's conservative majority.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Friday will have a mix of clouds and sunshine with slightly higher humidity. High temperatures will hover near 90 degrees near St. Louis. Tonight, a warm front will push across the region generating some spotty showers and thundershowers. The storms are expected to track north of I-70 late tonight into early [...]