DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois State Police is warning drivers to use extra caution on the roadways this holiday season. Authorities say they’re stepping up enforcement starting Wednesday. They’ll have extra officers patrolling Illinois interstates and road side safety checks. Extra patrols will focus on stopping people who are driving under the influence,…
Police say that Barnard has been found safe. ( KTRS ) The St. Louis County Police Department has issued a missing/endangered person advisory for a missing woman. Tuesday evening police responded to a call for a suspicious vehicle near the intersection of Terminal and Winkler Dr. At some point the vehicle fled the area with…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Reverend Larry Rice of the New Life Evangelistic Center claims the recent spike in drug overdose cases near his shelter don’t involve his clients. Rice says the homeless who are engaging in drug activity gather outside of the parking lot next to his property and he has contacted police about this…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency will test for radioactive contamination at a home near a St. Louis County landfill, a Superfund site where illegally buried nuclear waste sits near an underground fire. Meanwhile, Region 7 Administrator Mark Hague said Tuesday that the agency is not yet ready to announce remediation plans for…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Leaders of a public-employee union say Gov. Bruce Rauner administration’s plans to implement bereavement leave for union members is meant to distract Illinois workers and the public from larger contract negotiation issues. The State Journal-Register reports the contract terms will give American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees members paid…
Construction should begin next year and wrap up by 2020
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal judge has ordered a school district that includes Ferguson, Missouri, to institute a new method of electing school board members in an effort to remove racial bias from the process. U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel’s order Monday requires the Ferguson-Florissant School District to adopt cumulative voting, which will allow…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are urging President Barack Obama to take no more action on Iran that could reinforce the nuclear deal before he leaves office. House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce are issuing the request in a letter to Obama dated Tuesday. The…
CINCINNATI (AP) — An Ohio prosecutor said Tuesday he will again seek a murder conviction against a white former University of Cincinnati police officer, and wants to move the trial after a jury couldn’t agree on a verdict in the fatal shooting of a black man during a traffic stop. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters…
LOS EBANOS, Texas (AP) — All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump’s great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile frontier with…