Springfield, IL (KTRS) – Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner issued licenses to companies to run medical marijuana businesses. A report from the AP states that the governor issued 70 licenses before out-of-state criminal background checks could be performed using an FBI database. The Illinois State Police say the background checks have still not been performed as…
PALATINE, Ill. (AP) – Public health officials say they are investigating a cluster of measles cases in suburban Chicago. The Illinois and Cook County public health departments said Thursday morning that the cluster includes five children under age 1 at KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine. Lab test confirm measles in two of the children. Test…
Granite City (KTRS) – One student is in custody after police the student was caught with a gun at Granite City High School. Officers say all students are safe and they do not believe there are any additional threats connected to the incident. Before 10 AM, a student told school officials that another student had…
University City, MO (KTRS) – A woman and two children pulled from a house fire on Roth Ave. in University City Wednesday night, have died from their injuries. University City Fire Chief Adam Long said the fire appeared to be caused by a space heater. Investigators have identified the victims as 78-year-old Mamie Williams and siblings, 6-year-old…
The search continues for a suspect accused of dragging a St. Louis County police officer during a traffic stop. The incident happened at just before eight last night outside of the Oakpark Apartments in Spanish Lake. Authorities say two officers were conducting a traffic stop for a license plate violation. At some point, the suspect…
JENNINGS, Mo. (AP) – Police say a 67-year-old man was able to escape kidnappers who held him at gunpoint and forced him to withdraw money from several banks across Missouri. Law enforcement officials say the victim was kidnapped outside his Kansas City home early Thursday by two men. The suspects drove the victim around in…
(St. Louis, MO) — The St. Louis police department has released the identity of the 19-year-old man who was shot and killed by two St. Louis police officers Wednesday night. Officers say Isaac Holmes, of St. Louis, emerged from a stopped, stolen car holding a submachine gun with nearly three dozen rounds of ammunition. Police…
(Undated) The Francis Howell School Board has voted to reduce staff by about 80 employees next school year. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, about half of the cuts will be teachers. The staffing cuts are expected to save about $4.2 million as the district deals with a $22 million budget shortfall. Most of the…
AMAZONIA, Mo. (AP) – Twenty years after cleanup work wrapped up on a former northwest Missouri landfill, most people have either forgotten the site or never knew it existed. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that Wheeling Disposal began operating a landfill in the 1970s in a rural area near Amazonia. Before its closure in 1986,…
