by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Sports Features
A potential re-alignment plan for baseball is drawing heavy criticism from Cardinal camp. The plan would shift the Cardinals into the new Southeast division, with Atlanta, Florida, and Tampa Bay. The Cubs would be in a different division, which is unacceptable as far...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Health / Medicine
A one-million-dollar study in St.Louis is going to look at how spirituality can help prevent drug abuse in young people. The Missouri Institute for Mental Health and three church congregations are combining for the three-year study. It’s one of 21 abuse programs...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | News
The state Senate has passed a bill increasing penalties for government bodies that try to do public business in secret. The present 500-dollar maximum fine for violation of the state open meetings law has been hiked to 25-hundred dollars. The measure now goes to the...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A Kansas City man has been convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl at her home in Grandview. He’ll probably never get out of prison. The jury has recommended 11 life terms plus 117 years for Kevin Bradley. Two other men were charged in the kidnapping and rape...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | News
Firefighters are trying to control 18 brushfires this afternoon near theLake of the Ozarks and Truman Lake. Conservation department spokesman BrucePalmer says it’s tough to fight fires when it’s as windy as it istoday. He urges Missourians to refrain from...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | News
Charter Communications, one of the nation’s biggest cable television companies, is getting bigger with the purchase of another cable system in Michigan. The system in Kalamazoo will cost Charger about 172-million dollars in Charter stock. Charter is based in St....
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Crime / Courts
The first person to be sentenced in the “Project Felon” program in Kansas City gets seven years in prison. Theron Davis will not be eligible for parole. Project Felon targets people who have previous felony convictions who are caught with guns, and...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | News
The holder of one of the three winning powerball tickets from last weekend’s drawing has stepped forward…and has decided he’ll take his money in one big lump. Gary Ruff and his wife, from Overland, will get one check for almost 26-million dollars,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine
We won’t learn how much a St. Charles woman is getting in her out-of-court settlement with a St. Louis hospital and an oral surgeon there. The settlement has been ordered sealed by the judge hearing the case filed by Cathy Elsea. She said the surgeon did not...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Not a whole lot of enthusiasm for third parties in Missouri’s presidential primary. About 745-thousand votes were cast in the election. The Libertarian, Constitution and Reform Parties got less than five-thousand of them. Pat Buchanan got about 75 percent of the...
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Crime / Courts
Three murder charges have been filed against a Kansas City man accused of being the lookout for the arsonist who set a fire that killed a woman and her two sons in 19-98. A federal grand jury in kansas City has charged Rondell Cornelius, who has pleaded NOT guilty....
by admin | Mar 8, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A man convicted of two Kansas City murders in 19-83 has been ordered freed by the federal appeals court, unless the state puts him on trial again. The court says the prosecution used conflicting testimony from a witness to get several convictions in the case. Based on...
