SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Exelon Corp. says it will shut two Illinois nuclear plants because of legislative inaction on state financial support, but the company is still lobbying for the plan. An email obtained by The Associated Press that Exelon President and CEO Chris Crane sent to employees about Thursday’s decision also urged them to…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s budget director says revenue is up 3.4 percent compared to the same time last year. Director Dan Haug on Thursday announced that the state brought in about $8.1 billion in the current fiscal year through May. At the same time last year, the state had $7.8 billion. Revenue in May…
OVERLAND, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a 14-year-old is accused as a juvenile of carjacking a California woman’s rental car last month while she was getting gas in a St. Louis suburb. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the St. Louis teenager is charged with robbery, second-degree assault and resisting arrest. Overland police Lt. Steve…
( KTRS ) Officials have announced plans to relocate a federal spy agency to a new site in St. Louis rather than across the Mississippi River in southern Illinois. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced on it’s website that its western headquarters will be moved to north St. Louis, in the area that was previously the…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting in Moline Acres. At 8:40 p.m. Thursday night, police were called to the 9800 block of Wendell Drive in reference to a call for shots fired. Upon arrival, officers found an 18 yr old male, laying in the driveway of a home. He was pronounced dead…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis’ prosecutor says she won’t be charging two officers in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old last year, concluding that no evidence disproves police claims of self-defense. Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce announced her findings Thursday in the August 2015 death of Mansur Ball-Bey. She called the case “a tragedy…
A 47 year-old metro east man is facing charges connected a bank robbery last month. Police say that William Grier entered a Regions Bank in Belleville, demanded money from a bank teller and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash. He remains in jail on $150,000 bail.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The top Justice Department official who defended the president’s health care law at the Supreme Court is leaving his job. President Barack Obama says in a statement that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. is ending his five-year tenure as the administration’s chief lawyer at the high court. Verrilli made the principal argument…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week for a third straight week yet remained near three-year lows as the home buying season progresses. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 3.66 percent from 3.64 percent last week. That is well below its level a year ago of…
