( KTRS ) An effort is underway to plant more than 200 trees at the Illinois State Fairgrounds after dozens of trees were killed by the Emerald Ash Borer. The Illinois Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that the Illinois Green Industry Association to replace the trees, by donating 50 trees each year until 2019. Acting Agriculture Director…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill (AP) – Federal prosecutors have handed former Congressman Aaron Schock a second subpoena for financial records, texts and emails as part of a grand jury probe into spending by the Peoria Republican. The new subpoena was disclosed Thursday as prosecutor Timothy Bass appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Sue Myerscough. Bass said it’s…
( KTRS ) Authorities are reporting and responding to an officer involved shooting. Officers responded Thursday night to the 10100 block of Puttington in Lakeshire, to a report of a “cutting”. Upon arrival police say the suspect, a 30 year old male, physically assaulted two family members, a 33 year old female, and a 12…
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) – Police personnel records show an Illinois officer who staged his suicide to make it look like he was murdered had a troubled job history. Among the issues raised in Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz’s records, released late Thursday by the Village of Fox Lake, are suspensions, sexual harassment allegations and complaints…
ALTON, Ill. (AP) – Dynegy says it’s closing its Wood River Power Station in southern Illinois because of economic reasons. The company said in a news release Wednesday that it’s closing the 465-megawatt facility in Alton because of its “uneconomic operation” in a “poorly designed wholesale capacity market” in central and southern Illinois. That system,…
( KTRS ) A mother and son, apparently abducted, have been found safe in Nashville, Tennessee. Earlier in the day police received a report of an abduction from the 10,000 block of Cloverdale Ave, in North County. The family of 23 yr old Diana Berrios-Pimentel and 1 yr old Dyland Rosa called police after receiving text…
(KTRS/AP) – Missouri House members must take annual sexual harassment training. A House panel voted Thursday to approve the new rules. They also expanded the definition of who is required to report harassment claims. The changes come after high profile allegations and instances of harassment of interns. Then House Speaker John Diehl resigned after admitting…
(KTRS) – Some residents of O’Fallon, Missouri are fighting back over a proposed development. There is a hearing tonight on a zoning change for farmland near Fort Zumwalt South High School. Some area residents say it appears the area could be the site of a Walmart. Neighbors of the site say the they already face a…
HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis-area man is to be sentenced next month now that he has admitted in court that he sexually molested a woman who authorities say he helped get home after she became intoxicated at a party. Twenty-two-year-old Floyd Duncan Jr. of Imperial pleaded guilty Monday in Jefferson County to second-degree…
Patrick McKenna will be coming to Missouri as a funding shortfall is resulting in a backlog of needed repairs to aging bridges and roads