ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – A former suburban St. Louis police officer faces sentencing in May now that he has admitted stealing items from a car investigators had set up as a decoy as part of a sting operation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1Mobuc0) reports that 40-year-old Matthew Howze of Bowling Green pleaded guilty Monday…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Southern Illinois University’s board of trustees has voted to increase tuition next year at the school’s Carbondale campus by 3 percent. The vote Thursday means the price of tuition for new students will increase $264 to $9,099. The increase will not affect existing students. The cost of 15 mandatory student fees…
( KTRS ) Illinois’ unemployment rate rose slightly in February to 6.4 percent, increasing for the fourth straight month. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says that the number of people employed across the state increased by 18,100 people. But state officials say that as more people seek jobs Illinois’ economy is not creating enough positions.…
( KTRS ) Police are asking for the public’s help in finding in locating two teen girls that are possibly endangered. The first teen is 14 yr old Nyjaya Lindsey, she is approximately 5’0 tall, 120 lbs., and braided shoulder length hair. The second teen is 15 yr old Taylor Stevenson, she is approximately 5’2…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – As St. Louis’ population has dropped by more than half over the past seven decades, thousands of lots of vacant land now dot the landscape, especially on the city’s north side. A new program seeks to put that vacant land to good use. Mayor Francis Slay and leaders of Chicago-based Fresh…
(KTRS) – The St. Louis region is among the slowest growing large metropolitan areas in the nation. According to US Census estimates, the St. Louis region–which includes 15 counties– saw a population increase of about 5,400 people, about two-tenths of a percent, last year. That is a faster rate than only Chicago and Detroit. The…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Supreme Court has declared that former Gov. Pat Quinn was correct in 2011 when he denied state workers a promised 2 percent pay raise because lawmakers had not appropriated the money. The court determined on a 6-1 vote that the state’s contract with 30,000 members of the American Federation…
