UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) – A suburban St. Louis children’s center has received an anonymous $100,000 gift, following a profile of the center that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Post-Dispatch last week ran a story about the University City Children’s Center and its struggle to help children develop emotional skills. The newspaper reports…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Yadier Molina tripled in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning when right fielder Gregory Polanco missed an attempted shoe-top catch and Michael Wacha got his 14th win to tie for the major league high as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2 on Wednesday night. The game didn’t…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The father of a southern Illinois man who died in a fiery weekend crash says a piece of his son’s skull and the son’s hands were found at the crash site days later. Mike McPherson says the body parts belonging to 25-year-old Jared McPherson of Bethalto were retrieved Wednesday morning so…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois House Democrats have relented and sent Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner a federal spending plan that doesn’t include state dollars. After nearly an hour’s debate Wednesday on a measure that frees up federal money despite Illinois not having a state budget, the plan failed. It needed 71 votes to pass and…
