Authorities at Fort Riley are investigating the unattended death of a 21-year-old Army Private found unresponsive in his barracks on May 14th. Pvt. Thomas Lavrey was a utilities equipment repairer from West Seneca, New York. He joined the Army in March 2010 and was assigned to Fort Riley in Septenmber of that year. Lavrey was [...]
Workers are using ground penetrating radar to survey damage underneath the Gavins Point dam from last years extensive flooding. The radar is being used to assess the damage to see if any repairs will be needed to the frost blanket beneath the concrete. The dam is the last leg of a series of reservoirs along the Missouri [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Travelers passing through Lambert-St. Louis International Airport could start getting early morning drinks. Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that would allow alcohol to be sold at the St. Louis airport starting at 4 a.m. Currently, alcohol sales aren’t allowed until 6 a.m. In House discussion Friday [...]
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – With the first anniversary of the devastating Joplin tornado approaching, the ambassador of United Arab Emirates was expected in the southwest Missouri town Friday to announce a large gift to Mercy Hospital. The hospital was among 8,000 buildings destroyed in the May 22, 2011, tornado that killed 161 people. United [...]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An 8-year-old boy is in juvenile custody after he brought a loaded gun to a south St. Louis school on Thursday. KMOV-TV reports officers were called to the Confluence Academy around 8:30 a.m. after getting reports that a gun was brought on campus. Police said school officials searched a student’s bag [...]
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is urging the state supreme court to expedite the executions of eighteen men currently on death row in Missouri. Koster says nine of the defendants have exhausted their appeals, have no stays in effect, and no legal impediments remain for the Supreme Court to set execution dates. There are no [...]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis resident will not face charges in the shooting death of an intruder. Authorities say 38-year-old Jerome Burse and a second man broke into a home Wednesday afternoon and stole property. One of the adults in the home, a 23-year-old man, fired shots at the intruders. Burse collapsed outside [...]
SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are still trying to round up some wayward buffalo that escaped from a ranch in northwest Iowa. About 200 buffalo broke out of their pen at the Frick and Joe Buffalo Ranch in Sibley on Sunday. No injuries have been reported, but motorists are asked to be careful while driving [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa volunteer firefighter whose father is the fire chief is now facing seven charges of arson. Tama County Sheriff Dennis Kucera says investigators believe 18-year-old Justin Anderson set a string of several fires on rural properties between March and May. Thee homes and a barn were damaged in the [...]
A senior prank has left six high school students suspended, fellow students outraged, and a custodian unemployed. Students in Clayton, Ind. said the prank involved putting 12,000 Post-it notes on windows and walls of the school, and was intended to be harmless. “We figured it’s cheap, easy, creative, it doesn’t damage anything,” said Anthony Canaday, [...]