LA GRANGE, Ill. (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner and other Republicans say bipartisan groups of Illinois lawmakers are making progress on initiatives that Rauner says are essential to a deal on a long-delayed state budget. Rauner and House GOP leader Jim Durkin said Monday rank-and-file legislators are finding agreement on issues such as property tax…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri voters will decide this fall whether to extend a sales tax that funds state parks and conservation projects. Gov. Jay Nixon announced Monday that the one-tenth cent parks, soils and water sales tax will appear on the November ballot. The tax is written into the state constitution, but voters…
(KTRS) – A St. Louis County man is dead, police say he was shot to death in New Orleans over the weekend. Thomas Rolfes was an engineer at Clayco and his family says he visiting the city to visit possible wedding venues with his fiancee. Police say he was last seen about an hour before…
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is hedging his bets on backing his party’s nominee for president now that it’s apparent it’ll be Donald Trump. Toomey wrote in a Sunday op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer that he’s “inclined to support the nominee” of his party but said that his differences with Trump could…
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey lottery officials say the person who bought the lone winning ticket for the $429.6 million Powerball jackpot purchased just one ticket for the drawing. The lottery’s executive director, Carole Hedinger, said Monday that the ticket was purchased at 5:20 p.m. last Tuesday at a 7-Eleven store in Trenton. The customer…
