( KTRS ) The Illinois Department of Public Health is alerting the public to the potential of contracting Zika virus while traveling abroad. Two pregnant Illinois women have tested posistive for the virus after traveling to Honduras and Haiti. Physicians are monitoring their health and pregnancies. Zika virus is spread to people through mosquito bites,…
GRANDVIEW, Mo. (AP) – A Grandview woman has been charged in connection with the shooting of her 5-year-old granddaughter. Forty-three-year-old Taprill R. Barnett faces one count of felony child endangerment in the incident Monday. Court records say that Barnett told police she was cleaning her gun at home while the girl was playing in another…
( KTRS ) A proposed ban on lobbyist gifts to lawmakers and public officials has won approval from a House panel. Current law allows lobbyists to give unlimited gifts to legislators and other officials. Republican Rep. Justin Alferman’s bill would prohibit that. On Tuesday, members of a House committee voted unanimously in favor of the legislation.…