WASHINGTON (AP) – Two senators are urging Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs and hiking their prices many times over. Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Claire McCaskill of Missouri on Wednesday released findings from a year-long investigation into companies including Turing Pharmaceuticals, which generated national outrage after…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A record number of people have visited Missouri state parks this year, with attendance topping the 20 million mark for the first time. Gov. Jay Nixon announced the new record Wednesday. Nixon says enhancing the park system was a priority when he took office in 2009. He says millions of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Gov.-elect Eric Greitens is appointing a North Carolina corrections official to lead Missouri’s Department of Corrections. Greitens announced his pick Wednesday of North Carolina community supervision Director Anne Precythe. The Senate must confirm her appointment. Current Missouri prisons chief George Lombardi had applied to stay on when Greitens assumes…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Despite a standstill over the Illinois budget, a group of bipartisan lawmakers has been meeting more often in recent weeks to devise a plan to overhaul state funding for public schools. Although Illinois’ top leaders aren’t meeting to discuss the state budget, members of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s education funding reform commission…
WASHINGTON (AP) – A leader of Donald Trump’s transition says the president-elect is no longer interested in his catch phrase “drain the swamp” of Washington. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said his understanding is that Trump “now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore.” Gingrich…
Jefferson City, MO Â (KTRS) Â A soon to be state lawmaker wants to raise the marriage age requirement in Missouri. Representative-Elect Jean Evans filed her first piece of legislation, HB 270, which calls for raising the minimum age to get a marriage license with parental consent to 17. The current law individuals from the age of…
Warren County, MO  (KTRS)  A man is dead after being hit by a semi in Warren County. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that the victim clung to the hood of tractor-trailer for miles along I-70 Tuesday night before being hit by another semi rig while running in and out of traffic. The victim has been identified as…
( KTRS ) Police are investigating after a man was shot in North County Tuesday afternoon. Officers were initially called to an area of Prince Drive, in the Castlepoint neighborhood, for a shooting around 4:20 pm. Upon arrival it was discovered that all involved in the shooting had fled the area. A short time later…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois secretary of state’s office will continue mailing out license plate renewal notices for now, even if Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Legislature’s Democratic leaders don’t reach a new budget deal. Dave Drucker, a spokesman for Secretary of State Jesse White’s office, tells the Springfield Bureau of Lee Enterprises…
( KTRS ) Police in North County are investigating a fatal crash. Officers were called around 8pm Tuesday night to the intersection of Union Blvd and Lillian Ave. When officers arrived on the scene they found a two vehicle crash. One of the occupants had been ejected from the vehicle and rushed to hospital, but…