Chicago, IL Â (AP) Â – Â A new report says Illinois’ financial situation is so bad that the state would have to slash spending by more than 26 percent to balance next year’s budget through cuts alone. This morning, the nonprofit group, Civic Federation released its proposed five-year plan for stabilizing Illinois’ finances. The group says lawmakers’…
CHICAGO (AP) – Four African-Americans charged with a hate crime in an attack on a white mentally disabled man that was shown live on Facebook are expected to enter pleas during a court hearing. Brittany Covington, Tesfaye Cooper and Jordan Hill, all 18, Â and 24-year-old Tanishia Covingtonhearings are scheduled for Friday in Chicago have been…
Spanish Lake, MO  –  St. Louis County Police need the public’s help in finding two suspects wanted in an armed robbery at a Spanish Lake restaurant. Police have released surveillance images from the hold up Tuesday night at the Subway Restaurant on Larimore Road. Those images show the two suspects entering  the restaurant and approaching the…
O’Fallon, MO  (KTRS)  An influenza outbreak has prompted St. Dominic’s Catholic High School to cancel classes on Friday. School officials report that about 100 students have the flu.  Teachers and staff have also come down with the flu. The main office is also closed. After-school practices and events will continue as scheduled. Meanwhile, maintenance crews…
St. Louis voters now have two more ballot measures to decide this April: the half-cent sales tax for MetroLink expansion, neighborhood improvements and job training, and the funding plan for a major league soccer stadium downtown. It took a St. Louis circuit judge only minutes to decide to place the measures on the April 4…
St. Bonaventure, N.Y. (KTRS)  The Saint Louis University men’s basketball team lost a game and then its bus while playing in New York. New York State Police say the Saint Louis Billikens walked out of the arena of St. Bonaventure University  Wednesday night and their bus was gone. State police say the bus driver,…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Missouri has two new members to its public safety team. Governor Eric Greitens visited the St. Louis Fire Academy on Wednesday. That’s where he announced before a crowd of first responders his appointment of Tim Bean as the new state fire marshal and Ernie Rhodes to serve as the State Emergency…
(KTRS) Wildwood officials say they’ve reached an agreement with the EPA to make sure its dioxin site is clean before the agency takes it off its federal Superfund list. The Callahan site in Wildwood in St. Louis County is one of dozens of sites contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical dioxin decades ago. The EPA has…
WASHINGTON (AP) – An Illinois -based pet food company is recalling several lots of dog food because it may be contaminated with a euthanasia drug. Evanger’s Dog Food says it’s voluntarily recalling five lots of its Hunk of Beef product that may include pentobarbital “in an abundance of caution.” The food was distributed to retail…
St. Charles County, MO Â (KTRS) Â Evidence continues to mount in the murder case against Pam Hupp. The “St. Louis Post Dispatch” reports that sources close to the case say Hupp purchased the knife she claimed Louis Gumpenberger used to kidnap her back in August. According to those sources, Hupp bought the knife just days earlier…