JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is limiting lawmakers’ focus during an upcoming special session to drug treatment courts, appointments and education. Parson in a proclamation released Wednesday directed lawmakers to pass legislation to reform and expand treatment courts. The special session begins Monday. Parson’s directive comes after he vetoed a wide-ranging…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — Boone Hospital Center and BJC Healthcare will end their current lease agreement when it expires at the end of 2020. The mutual decision means the Columbia hospital will continue its search for a new manager. BJC Healthcare has managed the county-owned hospital for 30 years. The Columbia Missourian reports trustees said Tuesday the…
CARBONDALE, IL (AP) — Enrollment is continuing a steep decline at Southern Illinois University’s Carbondale campus, with nearly 12 percent fewer students this fall semester. The drop to 12,817 students follows enrollment declines of 7.5 percent in 2016 and 9 percent in 2017. The Southern Illinoisan reports the Carbondale enrollment about half of its 1991 peak of…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis police union is requesting a restraining order to prevent the release of the names of officers whose cases prosecutors will no longer pursue. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that union sought the order Tuesday against St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office and a police commander. A judge…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Schlafly Beer is responding to the cancellation of this year’s Lou Fest. Schlafly Beer released the following statement on Wednesday morning: We are extremely disappointed in the decision to cancel Loufest. Not only for our investment in the local music festival, but all of our additional local restaurants, makers and artists…
By MARK SHERMAN and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh touted the importance of an independent judiciary as his confirmation hearings began with strident Democratic criticism that he would be President Donald Trump’s man on the high court. On Wednesday, Kavanaugh can expect to spend most of the…
By STACEY PLAISANCE and KEVIN McGILL , Associated Press GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. The National Hurricane Center said…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Lou Fest won’t happened this year. Organizers tweeted overnight that the event has been canceled due to financial concerns. “We are saddened to announce that LouFest 2018 is canceled”. The event in Forest Park was scheduled for this weekend.
By MARK SHERMAN and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared fervently at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday the court “must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution.” But that was at the end of a marathon day marked by rancorous exchanges between Democrats and Republicans, including dire…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A north county woman is accused of starving her 2-month-old son. Twenty-four-year-old-year-old Makayla Hill of Bridgeton is charged with felony child abuse or neglect resulting in death. She is jailed on $150,000 cash-only bond. Bridgeton police were called by Hill to a hotel Sunday afternoon. Her son, Samuel Williamson Jr., was…