SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) _ A former University of Missouri employee has admitted in federal court that she stole more than $716,000 from the school over nine years. Fifty-four-year-old Carla Rathmann of Mount Vernon pleaded guilty Monday in Springfield, Missouri to one count each of mail fraud and credit card fraud. Rathmann had worked at the university’s…
CHICAGO (AP) – More than a dozen school superintendents have written a letter to Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner accusing him of playing politics with education funding. School leaders including from Chicago, Peoria and East Moline sent the letter Monday to Rauner. They say schools won’t open on time and call Illinois’ funding formula the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation making it a misdemeanor crime to possess fraudulently obtained credit card information. The legislation signed Monday by Nixon expands an existing law that makes it illegal to use someone else’s identity to try to get credit or debit devices. Nixon says current law does…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) North city residents and business owners are being given the opportunity to weigh in on the development of the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency site. The first of several meetings was held Monday night for Project Connect, which aims to gather public feedback on what the community would like to see developed around the…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis federal judge is ordering for the first time the release of unredacted grand jury transcripts in the Ferguson police shooting death of Michael Brown to lawyers for his family. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber signed off Monday on an order requiring St. Louis County prosecutors to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The city of St. Louis has paid $4.7 million to settle 44 cases filed since 2010 involving injuries, wrongful impisonment or death. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that number after reviewing settlements that were not previously publicized. The Missouri Attorney General’s Office, which represented the police in civil cases until 2013,…
In Illinois, there were 77 human cases last year including nine deaths
