SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Health care workers say 30,000 disabled Illinois residents who get in-home care will suffer because the state won’t pay extra for overtime. A federal rule that took effect Jan. 1 makes home care workers eligible for time-and-a-half pay for work over 40 hours. But the state Department of Human Services will…
( KTRS ) Democratic State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed of St. Louis, has announced that she is co-sponsoring a senate with Republican State Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph. Nasheed says, Senate Bill 924, also called the Restoration of Voting Rights Act, would allow Missouri citizens convicted of a felony and on probation or parole to vote.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The first bill the Missouri House has passed this year would increase reporting of elected officials’ and others’ personal finances. House members voted 143-11 in favor of the measure Thursday. It heads to the Senate. The legislation would require personal financial disclosure reports to be filed twice a year. Currently,…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his girlfriend and concealing her death by dumping her body in Madison County, Illinois. Madison County Circuit Judge Kyle Napp sentenced Raamon Reed on Wednesday. Reed pleaded guilty in November to shooting Tabatha Lynae Milton-Rush to death…
A GoFundMe page has been setup to help pay for Romell’s funeral.
The goal is to discover how differences in DNA contribute to the risk of disease
Voters must reauthorize the tax later this year or it will be phased out over the next ten years
(KTRS) – Police say they have found the red car they believe was involved in the murder of 11-year-old Romell Jones. Jones was shot Monday at an Alton housing complex. Police believe that someone inside the red car fired the shots that hit the boy, but they do not believe he was the target of…
Republicans say they hope to vote on the measures next week
Sacramento, CA (KTRS) A former Rams running back is believed to have taken his own life. Authorities say Lawrence Phillips was found unresponsive in his California prison cell early Wednesday morning. Officials say guards at Kern Valley State Prison found Phillips unresponsive in his cell shortly after midnight Wednesday. He was pronounced dead about 1:30 a.m.…