SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – An election official has recommended three St. Clair County judges who opted to run for election instead of retention should stay on the ballot. The judges plan to retire in name only to avoid retention elections that require 60 percent approval rather than a simple majority. They’ve filed paperwork to retire…
LESTERVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A woman found dead last week near the Black River in southeast Missouri had been missing since November. KFVS-TV (bit.ly/1P0WkbI) reports that the victim has been identified as 63-year-old Sharon Nelson, of Hillsboro. The Reynolds County Sheriff’s Department is investigating her death as a homicide. Her body was found Wednesday morning…
( KTRS ) Observers from St. Louis to Chicago marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with commemorations and demonstrations. A celebration in downtown St. Louis drew hundreds of participants, who braved temperatures hovering near the single digits on a 2.5-mile march. Speakers and marchers linked King’s legacy to contemporary efforts at job creation and police…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis police identified the 52-year-old man killed by an officer after a reported fast-food restaurant robbery. Police on Monday named Crayton West was killed during what they said was a Sunday evening armed robbery at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. The 42-year-old officer has not been identified. West was shot…
FLINT, Mich. (AP) – Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is making Flint’s water crisis a political issue. Clinton said during Sunday’s Democratic debate that Snyder has “acted as though he didn’t really care” about the crisis. But Snyder told The Detroit News on Monday after speaking at a Martin Luther…
According to the report just 62 people own the same wealth as half the planet. The compares with 388 people just five years ago
CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago State University says that in March it will run out of money to make payroll as it waits for long overdue state funding. The money for Chicago State and the eight other public universities is being held up by the dispute between Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats in the General Assembly…
Seven of the state’s 13 casinos now offer lines of credit to customers who qualify to borrow at least $10,000
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military has released its first official account of Iran’s seizure and subsequent release of 10 U.S. sailors in the Persian Gulf who strayed into Iranian waters last week in small boats. The account U.S. Central Command offered on Monday adds some detail to what was already known about the incident,…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A study shows the amount of man-made heat energy the oceans have absorbed since 1997 is equivalent to a Hiroshima-style bomb being exploded every second for 75 straight years. That’s double the heat energy the waters were absorbing before 1997. Scientists have long known that more than 90 percent of the heat…