( KTRS ) A bill to increase funding for financially struggling Illinois colleges and universities has cleared the state Senate. Lawmakers approved the $454 million bill on a near unanimous vote and sent the measure to the House on Thursday. Democrats who control the Legislature and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner have been unable to agree…
HARTFORD, Ill. (AP) – A Southern Illinois historic site is celebrating the anniversary of the start of Lewis and Clark’s legendary expedition of the West. The Lewis and Clark State Historic Site in Hartford will welcome more than 800 fourth-graders on May 13. They’ll do many of the same things that troops did to prepare…
CHICAGO (AP) – A member of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration says the Republican governor will not endorse Donald Trump as the GOP standard-bearer in the November election. Rauner declined to back a candidate during the once-crowded GOP nomination process, although he did express dismay with Trump’s rhetoric. Rauner’s aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity…
( KTRS ) Police are investigating a Thursday evening shooting that left 1 dead and a 14 yr old boy injured. Around 5:40 p.m. police responded to a shooting that occurred near the intersection of Northgate and Coberg. Authorities report the suspect, an unknown black male, exchanged gunfire with one of the victims near the…
(KTRS) – A police chase caused traffic problems on I-270 in south county earlier this afternoon. Police say the incident started as a bank robbery in Clayton. Officers started to chase the van, with the pursuit winding through the city of St. Louis and onto the highway. A listener tells KTRS that the suspect were…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Jewish human rights group alleges the University of Missouri is “missing in action” when it comes to addressing anti-Semitism on campus. Simon Wiesenthal Center officials made the complaint in a letter to the university system’s interim president Mike Middleton. The group says a review of some 7,400 pages of…
(KTRS) – A lockdown is over at Belleville East High School after a police chase ended on the school’s campus. School officials say that police were engaged in a chase, when two suspects hopped out of their vehicle on the campus and tried to run from officers. Both suspects were captured and the lockdown was…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A new initiative is underway aimed at reducing St. Louis’ vacant lot problem. This morning Mayor Francis Slay announced the “Mow To Own Program.” “We’re giving lots like this one for just $125 to next door neighbors who promise to maintain them. LRA will transfer the land and the title to…
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump is taking his first steps toward raising the massive amounts of money needed for a national presidential race, aiming to broaden his primary insurgency into a full-fledged general election campaign and unite the fractured Republican Party behind him. Trump is reaching out to party heavyweights, hoping to repair his…
