( KTRS ) Hopeful Missouri teachers will have more time to answer fewer questions on some certification exams after complaints that not enough teachers were passing. But State Board of Education members during a Tuesday meeting didn’t lower scores needed to pass the tests, despite some requests to do so. At issue are 55 new…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The St. Louis Zoo has won the fight for now in blocking a gun-rights activist from carrying a weapon inside the facility. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1JV9Ryp ) reports that a judge has granted a temporary restraining order against Ohio resident Jeffry Smith until a court can take up the dispute…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly are returning to Springfield to continue wrestling over a state budget deficit. The Senate will meet Tuesday to hear testimony on the impact of a state-imposed freeze on local property taxes. That’s one of the issues Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is pushing. The Legislature…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The chairman of a Missouri panel that regulates public utilities such as water and electricity will step down. Public Service Commission chairman Robert Kenney announced Monday that he’ll leave when his term expires in August. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon appointed Kenney in 2009 and named him chairman in 2013. Kenney…
St. Louis, MO ( KTRS ) A man who schemed with his ex-wife in a string of arson fires meant to defraud insurers has been ordered to spend nearly six years in federal prison for his role in a 2001 blaze that killed their teenage son. Steven Kemper was sentenced Monday in St. Louis to…
