SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Department of Corrections has withdrawn its plan to lay off 124 nurses while continuing to negotiate with the state employees’ union. Corrections spokeswoman Nicole Wilson said Thursday the department had informed the Illinois Nurses Association that it would not remove the nurses June 15. She says prison officials are…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri House members want more information on how much money the state is paying in lawsuit settlements and judgments. House members voted 150-1 on Thursday to pass legislation to require the attorney general and administration commissioner to update lawmakers and others monthly on state legal expenses. The bill comes after…
ST. LOUIS ( KTRS ) St. Louis Police have released the name of the child who was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on the north side Thursday night. She’s six-year-old Janell Rice of the 45-hundred block of Natural Bridge. Police say she was struck last night at the intersection of Labadie and Norwood.…
SPRINGFIELD, ILL (AP) The Democratic-controlled Illinois Senate has narrowly endorsed a plan requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns. The proposal would mandate that presidential candidates release five years’ worth of tax returns to appear on the general election ballot in Illinois. Democratic senator and gubernatorial candidate Daniel Biss of Evanston is sponsor of…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) The four-campus University of Missouri system is proposing raising tuition and required fees of in-state undergraduates by 2.1 percent for the fiscal year that begins in July. System officials consider the increases “modest” and say they’d generate $14.4 million in revenues. The administrators cite “significant financial and budgetary pressures” on the campuses in…
The fight continues after the closure of the New Life Evangelistic Center. Reverend Larry Rice and more than 100 homeless people gathered in downtown St. Louis outside of city hall on Thursday morning to sign a petition, which calls on Governor Eric Greitens to provide a state building for an emergency shelter. After years of…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating a shooting in north county. Police say an 18-year-old man was walking to a bus stop along the 3600 block of Oakdale Avenue in Uplands Park at just before 6 a.m Thursday. That’s when the victim was approached by three male suspects in a small, silver sport…
Pine Lawn, MO (KTRS) The Major Case Squad is looking for two vehicles in connection with the triple fatal shooting in Pine Lawn. The victims who have been identified as 29 year-old Andrew Green, 29 year-old Calvin Walker, and 23 year-old Marquise Cooper were gunned down 4500 block of Rosewood Wednesday morning. The vehicles being…
( KTRS) A man has died from his injuries after being shot last week during a fight with a friend. Police are now reporting that 20 yr Jarvis Jenkins died Monday, he was shot April 18th in 2100 block of East Adelaide. Police say that Jenkins and another man got into argument, then a fight,…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are pushing legislation that would make it harder for judges to require domestic violence victims to disclose confidential addresses. House and Senate leadership announced Wednesday that they would push an amendment to allow the secretary of state to intervene if a court wanted to require a person protected…