SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Springfield officials are shrinking plans for a second water-supply lake. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports (http://bit.ly/2p7AFJ5 ) the proposed Hunter Lake would pump up to 12 million gallons per day. The maximum capacity in earlier designs was 21 million gallons. Ted Meckes is water division manager for City Water, Light and…
( KTRS ) Authorities have apprehend a second suspect in connection with the death of Monica Sykes. Police report that they have arrested Jermaine Benjamin, he is the brother of Ray Ellis who is already in custody and charged with second degree murder. Benjamin has been charged with tampering with physical evidence and is being…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri House and Senate budgeters want to spend $100,000 on the state’s Amber Alert system. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday locked in a House plan to replace and expand the alert system for missing children. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Dan Brown says the company providing the program went bankrupt,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has defeated a proposal to allow voters to decide in 2018 whether to raise gas taxes by nearly 6 cents per gallon to fund improvements to thousands of miles of state highways and hundreds of bridges. Legislators struck down the proposal 51-103 on Wednesday. Supporters say it…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The National Football League says there is “no legitimate basis” for a lawsuit filed over the Rams’ 2016 relocation from St. Louis to Los Angeles. St. Louis City and County have filed a lawsuit against the National Football League over the move of the Rams to Los Angeles, citing violations of relocation…
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) The Missouri Senate has passed and sent on to the House a buyout program targeting homes near near Bridgeton Landfill and adjacent West Lake Landfill. Cold War-era nuclear waste was buried at these locations in the 1970s. The measure, sponsored by State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, would allow residents to apply for buyouts…
Hillsboro, MO Â (KTRS) Â Senator Claire McCaskill is on a three-day tour where she’s hosting townhalls in rural Missouri. The Democratic lawmaker kicked off her tour Wednesday morning at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, where she covered a wide range of topics, including opioid abuse, healthcare,farming, and Syria. Although her eight town halls are being held in…
St. Charles County, MO  (KTRS)  Efforts continue to raise awareness about the dangerous heroin and opioid epidemic in our country. On Tuesday evening, Francis Howell High School hosted a Town Hall meeting to educate the community on this issue. About 100 people gathered in the school’s auditorium, where they were presented with a reenactment of…
CAIRO, Ill. (AP) – Federal housing officials say they plan to relocate 185 families from two southern Illinois public housing developments that have been plagued by problems, including poor heating and mold. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would provide residents with vouchers and fund…
( KTRS ) Town and Country police are looking a man accused of passing counterfeit money. The man allegedly used counterfeit money to buy something inside the gift shop of the Missouri Baptist Medical Center, but also asked employees and visitors at the center for change. Anyone who knows the man is asked to contact…