SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – An expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program by 2 { years won lawmakers’ approval and goes to Gov. Bruce Rauner. The Senate agreed 50-7 Tuesday with House changes to the plan extending a pilot program and to add post-traumatic stress disorder as a medical condition treatable with cannabis. Republican Rauner supports…
( KTRS ) St. Louis County Police have issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing man. Authorities report that 25-year-old Marquise Lewis left his home on Cranberry Lane Monday night following an argument and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Police say Lewis suffers from schizophrenia and doesn’t have his medication. Meaning he…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is pushing a bill she says is aimed at helping World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas. McCaskill on Tuesday announced legislation to require federal agencies to reconsider disability claims denied to those veterans. The Democrat says the military tested the effects of mustard gas…
Officials say they can’t revoke his pension because his conviction wasn’t related to his Statehouse career
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The city of St. Louis has a new tool for fighting prescription drug abuse. On Tuesday, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay signed a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program into law. “People who died from heroin in the city of St. Louis last year ranged from the ages of 19 to 68. Drug…
(KTRS) – It appears the plan for a short-term budget fix in Illinois, is dead. Democratic lawmakers say they will not discuss Governor Bruce Rauner’s plan to fund schools and some social service agencies and leave other issues for later. Republicans worry that Democrats will instead move ahead with a budget plan that is not balanced.…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that while presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “a phenomenon” and political outsider, he has earned the right to the GOP nomination and the party’s support. McConnell says he does not believe Trump is changing the Republican Party “in a fundamental way,” but instead is…
(AP) – New research confirms that relying on emergency room data to estimate the prevalence of childhood concussions doesn’t deliver a complete picture because many seek treatment in primary care. The study, from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia health network, included about 8,000 kids who sought concussion treatment there over four years. About 80 percent were…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman who posted nude photos of a 15-year-old girl on Facebook has been sentenced to a year in federal prison. The Kansas City Star reports 49-year-old Michelle Renee McCoy, of Carl Junction, was sentenced Tuesday for possession of child pornography. Prosecutors say McCoy, an acquaintance of the girl, found…
