WASHINGTON – Years after firefighters extinguish a blaze, after the smoke has lifted and ashes have cooled, the people who risked their lives to contain the fire face another danger: Cancer and cardiovascular disease resulting from exposure to smoke and heat. Government and academic studies have shown firefighters are 9% more likely to develop cancer and 14% […]
The 2022 legislative session ended last week the same way it began back in January: With the Missouri Senate bogged down and barely able to function thanks to bitter divisions within the …
A panel of state appeals court judges heard arguments last week over whether former Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff used self-destructing text-message apps in 2017 to illegally circumvent Missouri’s transparency laws. While Greitens was still serving as governor, it was revealed he and his staff were using a text-messaging app called Confide. The app […]
Two best friends were in a canoe that capsized about 8:15 p.m. One man wore a life jacket and it to shore. His friend had no lifejacket and is still missing.
"It is the second biggest African American parade in the United States of America. It's just amazing to see our community come together," said Chelsea Haynes.
JetBlue Airways has answered the buyout rejection from Spirit Airlines' board with a hostile takeover maneuver.
The New York-based carrier (Nasdaq: JBLU), in competition with the parent of Frontier Airlines, has urged the Miramar, Florida, company's (Nasdaq: SAVE) shareholders to vote against the rival deal. The vote is scheduled to take place June 10.
JetBlue says its bid for Spirit is now $30 a share through an already fully financed proposal to acquire all stock directly from shareholders in…
EUREKA, Mo. - Thieves stole an ATM from Brookdale Farms in Eureka early Monday morning. FOX 2's Nissan Rogue Runner reporter Jason Maxwell was at the scene when police found the machine dumped on Highway W near 109. The owner of Brookdale Farms said the ATM was owned by a third-party company out of Arnold, Missouri. [...]
More than 8,300 families in Missouri have children with epilepsy, including the Capps family in Herculaneum, whose 4-year-old son is the namesake of 'Will's Law'.
ST. LOUIS - $300 million is being spent in St. Louis County and St. Charles County on new water projects. Missouri American Water has dedicated $400 million to upgrade its water and wastewater services across Missouri, and roughly $300 million of that is for St. Louis County and St. Charles County. Those upgrades include improving treatment [...]
There is no depth to which insurrectionist Senator Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, will not sink in his ambitious pursuit of national office. So, it comes as no surprise that Hawley has blatantly pandered to the Republican Party’s wingnut base by proposing that the federal government declare war on one American company: Disney. In his latest bill, titled the Copyright Clause Restoration Act, Hawley proposes stripping Disney of its copyrights on characters such as Mickey Mouse for the specifically stated reason that, in Hawley’s view, Disney is “woke.”
We’ve long discussed how if you really want to understand how the highly monopolistic U.S. broadband industry really works, you should look at regional phone monopoly Frontier Communications. Especially in states like West Virginia, where the company has spent decades lagging on fiber upgrades and DSL and phone repairs under a regime of regulatory capture that rarely holds them accountable […]
ST. LOUIS - Police have arrested two people who they say have stolen thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from area Home Depot stores. According to court documents, Shelly Hampton and Kenneth Coleman are charged with stealing $36,647.18 or more in merchandise. This is a class C felony with a punishment range of three to [...]
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