( KTRS ) Bond has been set at $10,000 cash for a man accused of making online threats against black students and faculty at University of Missouri’s Columbia campus. A Defense attorney for 19-year-old Hunter Park, told a Boone County judge Wednesday that Park’s cystic fibrosis was made worse by his stay in the county…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s athletic director wouldn’t tip his hand about who might replace retiring football coach Gary Pinkel, but said Houston’s Tom Herman, Memphis’ Justin Fuente and Tigers defensive coordinator Barry Odom are quality candidates. Mack Rhoades said Wednesday that the decision will come down to finding the right fit. Rhoades hired Herman…
ALTON, Ill. (AP) – The school board in the Mississippi River city of Alton has approved a two-year contract with teachers, ending concerns about a possible strike. The (Alton) Telegraph reports (http://bit.ly/1QvecN6) the school board approved the agreement Tuesday. Alton Education Association members had approved the deal last week. The agreement includes wage increases and maintains…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A coalition has more than two-thirds of its goal of 600,000 petition signatures to put a measure on the ballot creating a special commission to draw state legislative districts. The Independent Maps coalition announced Monday that more than 400,000 Illinois residents have signed petitions to put the proposed state constitutional amendment…
If everything moves ahead, the zoo could close on the land December 2016 and begin renovations as soon as 2018
Since 2010 Illinois has received 169 Syrian refugees
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – Prosecutors in Missouri have accused a Texas woman of causing the death of another woman with an illegal cosmetic injection into the victim’s buttocks. St. Louis County prosecutors charged 44-year-old Nitica Deonte Lee of Dallas with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, alleging she recklessly caused Daysha Phillips’ death in July by injecting her…
SEATTLE (AP) – Many voters don’t have the money to donate to political candidates or don’t care enough to bother. But what if the government gave them $100 to dole out as they saw fit? That’s the experiment underway in Seattle after voters adopted the nation’s first voucher system for campaign contributions. The idea is…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the United States must commit U.S. ground forces to the Middle East to fight the Islamic State. In a speech in South Carolina, Bush says “air power is essential” but cannot by itself rid Syria and Iraq of the extremist Islamic group. He says: “The…
