JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A renewable energy company is again facing opposition as it seeks one of the final pieces of regulatory approval needed to carry wind power from the nation’s heartland to the east. Missouri utility regulators began hearing testimony Monday on a request from Clean Line Energy to build a high-voltage transmission…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A new report shows that withheld funding and lack of follow-through effectively killed a program aimed at allowing Missouri residents receiving child support to accept wage hikes without losing state assistance. The Springfield News-Leader reports the Hand-up Program was approved in 2012 to help lessen the so-called cliff effect of…
( KTRS ) City officials and those who support bringing a Major League Soccer team to St. Louis will be meeting later today. A press conference/ announcement is being held a the Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis to unveil the ‘Community Benefits Agreement’ between the MLS Group and City of St. Louis.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Supreme Court won’t immediately consider Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s appeal of a circuit court ruling that state workers must be paid during the state budget impasse. Justices on Monday denied Madigan’s request to bypass the appellate court and take the matter directly to the Supreme Court. Madigan argues the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Fans are honoring the late music legend Chuck Berry with a memorial in the Delmar loop. Fans have been leaving flowers, candles, and signs at the foot of his stature along Delmar to pay tribute to the rock and roll pioneer since the news was announced about his death. Berry passed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The St. Louis childhood home of late poet Maya Angelou is up for sale. With a listed price of $159,000, the 1,100-square-foot place at 3130 Hickory St. was Angelou’s home for her first three years and, after her death in 2014 at the age of 86, was given local landmark status.…
St. Louis, MO ( KTRS ) Police continue to look for seven suspects in connection with a shooting at the Busch Stadium Metrolink station. Police say the incident began around 11 p.m. Sunday when the suspects boarded the train in the metro-east. The suspects began pestering a 51-year-old man and his 29-year-old son for…
( KTRS ) An elderly woman has died after a fire at her duplex in Ellisville. Police report that officers initially were responding to reports of a burglar alarm in the 1000 block of Ridgeway Meadow around 2 am Sunday morning. When they arrived on the scene, they saw heavy smoke coming from the home.…
Wentzville, MO (KTRS) Rock and roll music legend Chuck Berry has died. Police say that first responders were called to his Wentzville home on Buckner Road at around 12:40 on Saturday. Paramedics found Berry unresponsive and performer CPR. Those life saving efforts were unsuccessful and Berry was pronounced dead at 1:26 p.m. according to police.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House has passed a bill that would require teenagers to be older before they could get married without permission from a judge. House members voted 139-1 Thursday to send the measure to the Senate. Under current law, children ages 15-17 can get married with permission from a parent,…