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Red Cross announces 3 additional multi-agency resource center dates for flooding victims

3 years 1 month ago
The American Red Cross announced three additional dates for the Multi-Agency Resource Centers in the St. Louis area after overwhelming demand last week. The Multi-Agency Resource Centers, or MARCs, will be held at Friendly Temple on Martin Luther King Drive on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The MARCs will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, and masks are required by the church where the event is being held. The events will be one-stop shops for flooding victims to apply for assistance after…
Sam Clancy, KSDK

MSHP investigating police shooting at KC gas station

3 years 1 month ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Highway Patrol says a man who drove toward KCPD officers at a gas station on Sunday night was shot and killed. Investigators say officers were called to a Phillips 66 gas station at 55th and Prospect on reports of a stolen vehicle just before 10 p.m. Officers initially found [...]
Kathy Quinn

Missouri Man Accused of Bringing (and Losing) Gun At Jan. 6 Riot

3 years 1 month ago
A Centralia, Missouri, man has been accused of bringing a loaded gun to the U.S. Capitol and misplacing it in the chaos of the insurrection riot on January 6, 2021. Federal authorities arrested Jerod Bargar, 36, on Wednesday for felony and misdemeanor charges after he allegedly left his loaded 9mm semiautomatic pistol on restricted grounds at the Capitol. According to a federal affidavit, Capitol police found Bargar's gun on the ground during the insurrection.
Monica Obradovic

America’s Two Biggest Cable Broadband Monopolies Failed To Add Any New Customers Last Quarter

3 years 1 month ago
Roughly 83 million Americans currently live under a broadband monopoly. In most instances, their only choice is Comcast or Charter Communications, which sells service under the “Spectrum” brand. And in both cases, users pay significantly higher prices for spotty, slow, service with statistically terrible customer service, because that’s how monopolization works. But the nation’s two […]
Karl Bode

Hartmann: Bad News From Kansas For Ann Wagner

3 years 1 month ago
Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R-Ballwin) has just sailed into uncharted waters. Wagner’s Second Congressional District has long been regarded as safely Republican, with good reason: Democrats have held the seat for only one two-year term in the past 36 years. Republican gerrymandering last year made it redder.
Ray Hartmann