Mike Ferguson in the Morning 12-06-24

(8:05am) Andrew Jones announces his candidacy for St. Louis City mayor in the April, 2025 elections. Andrew will begin gathering petition signatures to get on the ballot. We discuss the challenges that are currently facing St. Louis City.

(8:20am) MORNING NEWS DUMP

We're still waiting on a judge's ruling to see if abortions will resume in St. Louis and other parts of Missouri.

Trump was honored as Patriot of the Year in NYC. Story here: https://nypost.com/2024/12/05/us-news/trump-receives-patriot-of-the-year-honor-at-fox-nations-patriot-awards/

The family of Ferguson Police Officer Travis Brown says he's making progress at a rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta. Story here: https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/he-actually-smiled-family-celebrates-birthday-milestones-with-injured-ferguson-officer/

Sen. Marsha Blackburn comments on the DOGE bill. Story here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-senator-doge-acts-musk-ramaswamy-government-cost-cutting-objectives

The Missouri election results are now official. Sec. of State Jay Ashcroft certified the General Election results on Thursday. Amendment 2, the sports betting proposal that was written by gambling interests, passed by a margin of less than 1/10 of 1%! It passed by 2,961 votes out of 2,954,343 votes. 

We give you some tips on keeping your pets safe around the Christmas tree.

Blues beat the Flames in Calgary in overtime 4-3. Up next: the Oilers in Edmonton on Saturday night. 

(8:35am) Danni Santana from CNET talks about how we're vulnerable to online fraud and ID theft, especially during the holidays. Danni's column here: https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/identity-theft-and-cybersecurity-survey-2024/

More CNET columns from Danni here: https://www.cnet.com/profiles/dsantana/

More on CNET here: https://www.cnet.com/

More articles by Danni here: https://www.dannisantana.com/

(8:50am) We continue the discussion on scams, fraud, and ID theft.

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