Thorne Receives 6th Year
Illini Forward Will Be Back
In-state students’ tuition to stay flat at University of Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri System governing board is freezing tuition for in-state undergraduates but hiking it for other students. Curators on Wednesday agreed not to raise tuition for in-state undergraduates in the four-campus system. Tuition will increase 3 percent next fall for out-of-state undergraduates. That will mean an increase of about…
Travel website names Forest Park the best public park in the nation
(KTRS) – Forest Park is getting some love from a travel website–the St. Louis jewel was named the best public park in the country by Thrillist. The list-makers said attractions live the St. Louis Art Museum and St. Louis Zoo helped earn the park the top spot.
Man sentenced to life in prison for shooting death of grandmother
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis man has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in the 2014 shooting death of a bystander who was walking with her grandchildren. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports St. Louis Circuit Judge David C. Mason sentenced 22-year-old Tommy Dora on Wednesday.…
Trump unveils list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices
Trump said in March he planned to release the list of potential nominees to ease concerns about his conservative credentials in the Republican primary
Large HIV vaccine study planned in South Africa this fall
WASHINGTON (AP) – Scientists are planning a major study of an experimental HIV vaccine in South Africa later this year. The shots are based on the only attempted HIV vaccine ever to show even marginal effectiveness, in Thailand in 2009. The U.S. National Institutes of Health said Wednesday its study in South Africa will use…
Stuck on hot: Earth breaks 12th straight monthly heat record
The first four months of 2016 were 2.05 degrees higher than the 20th century average
Ex-governor: More ugly women than attractive women in US
Ed Rendell says Donald Trump’s past comments on women will likely come back to haunt
‘Affluenza’ teen Ethan Couch moved from maximum security
Couch must spend 180 days in jail for each of the four people he killed in the wreck.
California aims to reflect diversity in classroom studies
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – How do you teach the history of the world in California schools, where nearly two-thirds of students are Latino or Asian, many from newly immigrated families? That’s the challenge facing a California panel charged with establishing a new history and social studies framework for millions of public school students. On Thursday,…