PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci will lie in repose at City Hall outside the office he occupied for more than 21 years. Cianci died Jan. 28 at 74. He was the city’s longest-serving mayor but was forced from office twice because of felonies. Cianci’s wake will be held Saturday and Sunday.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Amtrak and the Illinois Department of Transportation say they have reached an agreement to maintain existing service on state-supported routes while reducing costs. The deal announced Friday will maintain service through the end of the fiscal year on June 30 at a cost of $38.3 million to the state. The department…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker has dropped a restraining order he had obtained against a colleague with whom he says he got into a fistfight. Representative Courtney Allen Curtis confirmed Friday that he had dropped the action against Rep. Michael Butler. Curtis says Butler swung at him outside a union reception over…
The attorney general’s office argued that cities aren’t required to have a police department because they can contract services from other law enforcement agencies
EARTH CITY, Mo. (AP) – As the St. Louis Rams organization packs up its headquarters in preparation for moving the National Football League team to Los Angeles, about 50 employees are preparing to be left behind. Since the NFL voted to relocate the Rams to Los Angeles three weeks ago, about half of the 100…
(KTRS) – Plenty of questions after 40 elementary school students were taken to the hospital after complaints about an odor of natural gas. The fire department says that around 350 students from the Ames Visual and Performing Arts Elementary were evacuated. The students said they felt sick. Laclede Gas was called to the scene, but…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Several University of Missouri students are pressing the system’s governing board for faster reforms in diversity as the Columbia campus continues grappling with racial unrest punctuated by racial protests there last November. Black graduate student Timothy Love was among four students at the Columbia school who addressed the university’s curators during…
The National Park Service is facing a backlog worth billions of dollars
