CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has renewed his emphasis on finding waste in taxpayer-funded health care programs. Rauner appeared Wednesday at a Chicago news conference to release a report from a task force he created to study the matter. Established in April, the group has studied the best practices of agency fraud…
( KTRS) The man accused of murdering Officer Blake Snyder has pleaded “not guilty”. 18 yr old Trenton Forster gave the plea Wednesday afternoon in his first court appearance. He has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting of 33-year-old officer Snyder. Officer Snyder and his partner were responding…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A recently found recording shows Democratic attorney general candidate Teresa Hensley criticizing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster. Former Cass County Prosecutor Teresa Hensley said in a Wednesday statement that the video was taken during a 2006 debate after she succeeded Koster as prosecutor. In the video, Hensley says the prosecutor’s office…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri has received an $8 million gift for its proposed football facility project at Memorial Stadium. The university’s athletic department said Wednesday the donor wished to remain anonymous. Missouri has raised about $67 million of the estimated $75 million needed for the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex near the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal appeals court has ordered a judge to revisit her refusal to throw out a $100 million lawsuit by a man whose conviction in a Missouri sports editor’s death was overturned after his nearly a decade in prison. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided Wednesday with six Columbia…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a St. Louis attorney accused of misusing $2,500 of his client’s money. Sean E. Bryant lost his license Tuesday. Authorities say Bryant was representing a man in 2015 who was jailed in St. Louis County for probation violation in a case involving late child-support payments.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Democratic Party chairman is claiming that Republican Eric Greitens broke campaign finance laws by using a list of charity donors to raise money in his campaign for governor. Roy Temple filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against Greitens, a former Navy SEAL officer who founded a veterans’ charity called…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Tim Kaine is predicting a “scorched-earth” debate performance from Republican Donald Trump. Ahead of Wednesday night’s presidential debate, the Democratic vice presidential nominee said running mate Hillary Clinton will be cool and collected in the face of Trump’s likely insults and histrionics. Kaine made the comments at a campaign rally in Springfield,…
