WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior U.S. official says the first of 17 detainees scheduled to be released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in January will be transferred next week, as the Obama administration continues efforts to reduce the population at the controversial detention center. The official says that another three detainees are slated to appear…
( KTRS ) At a time of the year when both precipitation and the river level typically are low, there could be record crests in some places along the Mississippi. The river already was high due to an unseasonably warm, wet late fall and early winter. 6 to 10 inches of rain have fallen since…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The state of Illinois is asking for the public’s help in cracking down on child human trafficking. The Illinois Department of Human Services on Monday said trafficking of children for sex occurs throughout Illinois. The department says it has investigated more than 600 allegations of the crime in Illinois since 2011.…
PATOKA, Ill. (AP) – A Kentucky couple and their three children headed to visit family in Minnesota have been identified as the weekend drowning victims caught in a rain-swollen southern Illinois creek. Todd County, Kentucky, Coroner Timothy Wells told The Associated Press Monday that Adam Schutt and his wife Erin of Elkton died Saturday night…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the Motorhead frontman whose outsized persona made him a hero for generations of hard-rockers and metal-heads, has died. He was 70; his birthday was on Christmas Eve. Agent Andrew Goodfriend tells The Associated Press that Kilmister died on Monday in Los Angeles after a brief battle with aggressive…
( KTRS ) Authorities say more than 180 Missouri roads are closed or restricting traffic because of flooding. MoDOT official say the closures include eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 in St. Charles County. Lanes in both directions closed Sunday because of rising flood waters from the Dardenne Creek. Several bridges also are closed because of…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A 21-year-old man is the latest suspect to be accused of assisting in the looting that followed last year’s grand jury decision not to indict a Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1YN7YYW) reports that St. Louis County prosecutors have charged Donovan Doan of…
East St. Louis, IL (KTRS) The East St. Louis city manager who got the job after a failed mayoral re-election bid is out of a job. The City Council members voted Monday to fire Alvin Parks as the city struggles with a nearly $6 million budget shortfall. Longtime city employee Edith Moore was named interim city…
CLEVELAND (AP) – The prosecutor in Cleveland says a “perfect storm of human error” led to the death of Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was holding what turned out to be a pellet gun when he was shot by police. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty announced Monday that a grand jury has declined to…
