SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Southern Illinois University has approved a financial sustainability plan that includes recommendations to close seven programs at the Carbondale campus. The Board of Trustees during its meeting Thursday in Springfield signed off on the new financial strategy that calls for $26 million in cuts, including permanent budget reductions totaling $19 million.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The $10 per hour minimum wage law in St. Louis will be short-lived, but an effort launching Friday will encourage and pressure businesses to honor the higher wage even if state law doesn’t require it. The “Save the Raise” campaign is being led by a coalition of groups including Show Me…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) This Saturday, baseball fans can join Cardinals mascot, Fredbird for a trolley ride to Child Safety Day in Forest Park. This free, family-friendly event focuses on promoting the physical, emotional and social safety of children by teaching families how to stay safe on the street, in the car, on bicycles, around…
LAKE OF THE OZARKS (KTRS) The name will remain Tan-Tar-A but there’ll be something added to the Lake of the Ozarks resort: a Margaritaville Property. This comes after the announcement Thursday that the Jimmy Buffet-inspired company of resort hotels has bought Tan-Tar-A and will make a multimillion dollar investment in renovating the longtime resort. It will…
Bertrand Russell “Bert” Berns (November 8, 1929 – December 30, 1967), also known as Bert Russell and (occasionally) Russell Byrd, was an American songwriter and record producer of the 1960s. A pioneer of 1960s rock and soul, Berns made numerous contributions to popular music, including “Twist and Shout“, “Piece of My Heart“, “Brown Eyed Girl” (as a producer), “Here Comes the Night“, “Hang On Sloopy“, “Under the…
Bill Nye has been the public face of science and discovery for more than twenty years. Best known as the host of Emmy Award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show Bill Nye the Science Guy, and current host of Netflix show Bill Nye Saves the World, Nye is a science educator, mechanical engineer, and New York Times bestselling author of Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of…
Melody Warnick, who has been a freelance journalist for more than a decade, is a regular contributor to the Everyday Heroes column in Reader’s Digest, where she profiles people around the country who do heroic things in their communities. She has also written for a number of other major magazines, including Redbook, Woman’s Day, Ladies’…