SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois House Democrats advanced a $3.9 billion measure to fund colleges and human services programs while the state operates without a budget. Republicans say the plan headed to the Senate is a hoax and that there’s no money for it. In remarks before the vote Tuesday, House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed…
(KTRS) – A Dupo, Illinois woman is accused of suffocating her daughter one day before her fifth birthday. Prosecutors say that Mary Lockett killed her daughter, Emily Perrin, last weekend. She is facing first-degree murder charges.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri House committee has approved a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would declare a right to life for unborn children “at every stage of biological development.” The amendment approved Tuesday does not include any exceptions in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life. The…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri department tasked with cleaning, maintaining and fixing buildings on the Columbia campus is eliminating 50 jobs. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the move involving MU Operations comes a month after university administrators announced they were cutting spending by 5 percent and putting a hiring freeze in…
(KTRS) – Missouri lawmakers finish their legislative session May 13 and some worry that there is not enough time to pass meaningful ethics reforms. The Post-Dispatch reports that four ethics proposals are working through the Legislature now. The pending plans range from limiting lawmakers ability to invest after leaving office to forcing lawmakers to wait…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois health officials have proposed new rules requiring parents who oppose vaccinating their children based on religious reasons to provide a special document to schools and child care facilities each year. The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reports that the Illinois Department of Public Health proposal is in response to…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley has had breakfast with the man whose nomination to the Supreme Court he has promised to block. The Iowa Republican dined with federal judge Merrick Garland Tuesday in the Capitol’s Senate Dining Room. Grassley evaded reporters afterward, and his office said it would release a statement…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican businessman Donald Trump and former Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been certified as the winners of Missouri’s presidential primaries. The results of the March 15 primaries were made official Tuesday. But the losing candidates still have seven days to request a recount. Trump led Texas Sen. Ted…
Springfield, IL (KTRS) – Illinois health officials are proposing new rules requiring parents who oppose vaccinating their children based on religious reasons to provide a special document to schools and child care facilities each year. The Illinois Department of Public Health’s proposal is in response to a law approved last year. The law created a…
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Seashells, sandcastles and seaweed are typical items found at the Jersey shore. And beachgoers left some odd items behind in the sand and surf last year, too, including a beer keg, birth control pills, and a rubber brain. The Clean Ocean Action environmental group released its most recent findings Tuesday…