SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois House returns to action Monday with a long list of legislation slated for committee hearings – but none about the unsettled budget that should have taken effect last July. Bills up for consideration include regulation of daily fantasy sports betting and easing access to police video under the Freedom…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Deal-maker Donald Trump has lived his life as one long negotiation. He goes with his gut and wings it when necessary. Should Trump become president, the White House could well be transformed into the world’s highest-profile improv club. It’s part of what delights Trump’s followers and horrifies his critics. All of it…
CHICAGO (AP) – The first major research of its kind shows that cholesterol-lowering statins can prevent heart attacks and strokes in a globally diverse group of older people who don’t have heart disease. The results from 21 countries bolster recommendations on who should consider taking the drugs. The aim was to prevent heart disease using…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Delrish Moss experienced the worst of policing growing up in inner-city Miami. Those close to him say that makes him the ideal person to bring the best of it to Ferguson, Missouri, where African-American mistrust of police dates long before the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Moss, a 51-year-old black man,…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – Ferguson police are investigating the death of a man found near a parking lot. Officers were called Thursday night after reports of shots being fired. The 31-year-old victim was found dead along the edge of a parking lot. Police say he had been shot several times. No arrests have been made…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Krejci had two goals and two assists and the Boston Bruins snapped out of a scoring funk to beat the St. Louis Blues 6-5 Friday night and hang onto third place in the Atlantic Division. Loui Eriksson got his 500th career point with a goal and an assist and Patrice…
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(KTRS) – One engineer was taken to the hospital for a checkup after two of the St. Louis Zoo’s trains collided Friday afternoon. Zoo officials say more than 150 visitors were on the trains at the time of the accident, but none were injured. One train was going 8 miles an hour when it ran into…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A House committee has passed a bill that would allow concealed guns on college campuses. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the House Emerging Issues Committee passed the bill with an 8-3 vote Wednesday, winning unanimous support from Republicans. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Jered Taylor, would repeal…
St. Louis, (KTRS) St. Louis continues to bask in the victory of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s plan to stay in St. Louis. Friday morning state, city, and community leaders gathered for a news conference at Mayor Francis Slay’s office to speak about the NGA’s preliminary decision. Governor Jay Nixon was among those in attendance. “We’re…