The MLS announced today that they are delaying expansion. MLS4TheLOU CEO Carolyn Kindle-Betz sent out a tweet shortly thereafter to respond to the MLS decision, and hint at a possible announcement to come. Kindle-Betz is scheduled to join Brendan Wiese this Tuesday night on the Big Sports Show.
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan “must resign” if allegations of corruption are true against the fellow Democrat long considered the state’s most powerful lawmaker. The U.S. Attorney’s office says electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery…
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The former deputy collector for a rural eastern Missouri county has been sentenced to five years of probation. Kelcey Gresham, of Fredericktown, was sentenced after pleading guilty Thursday to a felony stealing charge. State Auditor Nicole Galloway said that Gresham also paid $5,409.72 in restitution under the terms of the plea.…
NEW YORK (AP) — Five more baseball players tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, raising the total to 80 since testing started in late June. Major League Baseball and the players’ association said six of 10,548 samples were new positives in the week ending Thursday, a rate of 0.05%. In addition to players,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver and that she will continue chemotherapy sessions every two weeks “to keep…
Warner Robins, GA (AP) — As normalcy returns to many segments of the U.S. that were locked down as the coronavirus spread, most nursing homes remain frozen in the same position since March. Though some states are inching toward normalcy for residents of those facilities, most are still barring visitors and severely curtailing activities inside.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An area man who fled from police is headed to prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, 26-year-old Leneko Waller was sentenced to 5 years Thursday. The plea agreement says that back in October of 2019, St. Louis Police…