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Fort Leonard Wood Bracing for Loss of Military, Civilian Positions
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Facing the possibility of losing more than 5,400 military and civilian positions, officials at and around Missouri’s Fort Leonard Wood are going on the offensive. Missouri’s senators...
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Ft. Leonard Wood Commander Says Recruiting Remains Competitive
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The commander of Missouri’s Ft. Leonard Wood Army base says recruiting is still going well, as the nation continues to fight terrorism around the globe. Major General Leslie Smith...
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Army Referral Scheme Makes Couple Millionaires
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill announced a scheme revealed to have deprived the U.S. Army of nearly $4 million. The scheme, perpetrated by a retired Army sergeant and his wife, used a...
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Army Corps of Engineers Seeks to Soothe Coldwater Creek Concerns
HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOX) – As the Army Corps of Engineers held a meeting Thursday night to update its clean-up of nuclear-contaminated sites in the area, residents zeroed in on Coldwater Creek. The big...
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Warren County Deputy on Leave Over Fabricated Ambush Report
WARRENTON, Mo. (AP) – A Warren County sheriff’s deputy is on unpaid leave over a fabricated report about a weekend ambush shooting. The unnamed deputy claimed that he came under fire in the Reifsnider...
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State Officials, Missourians Show Support for Fort Leonard Wood
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (KMOX) – Losing 5,400 jobs at Fort Leonard Wood would be devastating to the community, the Army mission and the security of the nation, says Missouri Secretary of State Jason...
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Fresh Call for Total Removal of Nuclear Waste in Bridgeton
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KMOX) – A longtime leader of the environmental movement in St. Louis is calling for the total removal of all nuclear waste from the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton. Eighty-two-year-old...
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Purple Heart Medal Returns to WWII Soldier’s Family
OTTAWA, Ill. (AP) – A Purple Heart medal, lost for decades, has been returned to a World War II soldier’s family in Illinois. The Daily Journal reports the medal belonged to William T. Brewer, who...
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Army Corps Prepares for Potential Levee Trouble
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – The Army Corps of Engineers is warning we’re “one storm event away” from potential trouble on some area levees. “The ground’s all saturated and it’s going to go into the rivers and...
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Fort Leonard Wood to See Reduction of 774 Troops
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (AP) – Although Fort Leonard Wood will lose about 15 percent of its active-duty troops in the next two years, the Army reductions announced Thursday could have been much worse,...
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Ferguson Hires Another Interim Police Chief
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Ferguson police force has new leadership for the third time in four months. The city on Wednesday introduced Andre Anderson, 50, as interim chief. Anderson previously was...
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Scott AFB and Fort Leonard Wood Fight Off Military Closures
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri and Scott Air Force Base of Illinois both survived the recent large U.S. Army cuts with a graze wound. But now state officials are focusing on making...
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‘Game Changer’: Charity Provides Segways to Wounded Vets
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Before Thursday night’s ballgame, St. Louis Cardinals fans will honor six wounded veterans who received a major gift earlier in the day – Segways from the locally based charity...
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Body Found in Northeast St. Louis Identified as Missing Army Veteran
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – (UPDATED 5 p.m.) The 159th homicide victim in the city of St. Louis has been identified. St. Louis police say the body found this morning under construction materials in the Baden...
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Game Time Salute Honors Army Veteran Jerome “JT” Taylor
This article is sponsored by Raytheon Richmond, Virginia native Jerome “JT” Taylor chose to enlist in the Army when he was 18 years old because he wanted pursue opportunities greater than what was...
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Rehab of Chris Sanna’s Home Nearing Completion
HOUSE SPRINGS, MO (KMOX) – Friday is a big day at Chris Sanna’s House Springs home. The mother and step-father of the Army Veteran who was left paralyzed in a robbery and shooting after a Cardinals...
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Chris Sanna Returns To Newly Remodeled Home In House Springs
HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. (KMOX) – Paralyzed Army veteran Chris Sanna returned to his refurbished House Springs home Monday morning, nearly four months after he was shot during a robbery attempt near the Old...
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Completion Of Coldwater Creek Cleanup Still 10 Years Away
FLORISSANT, Mo. (KMOX) – Turns out there’s good news and some not-so-good news concerning the ongoing cleanup of radioactive contamination from Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis County. The good news...
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Fort Leonard Wood PowerPoint Slide Listed Hillary Clinton as ‘Insider’ Threat
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (KMOX) – Is Hillary Clinton an “insider” threat to national security? That’s what trainees at Fort Leonard Wood were taught for 18 months. Clinton’s photo was next to those of...
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Army to Hold Memorial for Granite City Soldier Killed in Afghanistan
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) – A Colorado Army post is holding a memorial for a soldier from Illinois who died in a noncombat incident in Afghanistan. Thirty-six-year-old Staff Sgt. Christopher A. Wilbur of...
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