CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois will stop giving the ACT college entrance exam and instead start giving high school juniors the rival SAT. The Chicago Tribune reports the company that offers the ACT has filed a protest with the state seeking to cancel Illinois’ contract with the College Board, which offers the SAT. State records show…
St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  Animal rights activists plan to hold a demonstration against the St. Louis horse-drawn carriage industry for what they call inhumane treatment of horses. The protest follows the dismissal of a petition filed in St. Louis City Court, requesting the court to force the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission and  and it’s…
Las Vegas, NV Â (AP) Â The newly crowned Miss Universe from the Philippines is apologizing on behalf of the Miss Universe organization for the mistake that led a contestant from Colombia to first believe that she had won the crown. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach told reporters after the Miss Universe pageant that she had conflicting emotions when…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â A north St. Louis man who shot and killed a teenager accused of breaking into his car is now facing charges. However, it’s not for the death of the teen. Sixty-year-old Lervurance McDade is charged for being a felon in possession of a weapon. Back in 2013, McDade was sentenced to…
ZURICH (AP) – FIFA’s ethics committee has banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini for eight years years from all soccer-related activities. Platini’s bid to succeed Blatter as FIFA president in a Feb. 26 election is now likely ended. Ethics judges ruled that Blatter broke FIFA Code of Ethics rules on conflicts of interest, breach of…
BROOKLYN, Ill. (AP) – Police in southwestern Illinois say they found a 35-year-old shooting victim’s lifeless body in the trunk of a car that had just crashed into a pole near a village police department outside St. Louis. St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone identified the victim as Roderick Taylor of Cahokia. The Belleville News-Democrat…
( KTRS ) A St. Louis police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers Jr. last fall has resigned after police opened an investigation into whether he was drunk when crashed his squad car. Police spokeswoman Schron Jackson reports that officer Jason Flanery was driving his patrol car Saturday morning when he struck a parked…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Cash-strapped Illinois has at least $4 billion in the bank. The money is sits in special funds in the state budget created for specific purposes. But an Associated Press analysis shows it’s in 531 accounts that could be ripe for picking as a fix to the budget mess. No one has…
