SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says President Barack Obama’s health care law has “massive flaws,” but he’s cautious about repeal “with nothing to replace it.” Rauner spoke to reporters Wednesday after an event in Springfield. The Republican says he’s encouraging Illinois officials to talk with President-elect Donald Trump’s team and “encourage them…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – There’s new life for a plan to have St. Louis taxpayers help fund a new downtown soccer stadium. Eight days after the public funding proposal was declared all but dead, Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia on Wednesday requested a hearing before the city Ways and Means Committee. The hearing is set for Thursday.…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating after a man died of a gunshot wound after a traffic stop in Columbia. Boone County Sheriff Sgt. Scott White says the confrontation began Wednesday afternoon when Columbia police pulled over a car. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports White said two females got out…
( KTRS ) Police are investigating a shooting. Very few details have been released, but a brief report says the shooting happened just before 8:30 pm last night, near Harney Ave and Kingshighway Blvd. The victim was shot once by a known subject in the ankle. An investigation is ongoing.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led House has pushed forward a proposal to make Missouri the 28th right-to-work state despite Democratic efforts to send the measure to a public vote. The House voted 101-58 Wednesday to give initial approval to the bill, which would ban mandatory union fees. The bill needs another House vote…
( KTRS ) Homicide detectives have been called to investigate a Wednesday night shooting. At this time police are only saying that someone was fatally shot juts before 10 pm in the 900 block of North Euclid in the Fountain Park neighborhood. Anyone with any information on this shooting is urged to contact the police.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The commissioner of Indiana’s Department of Environmental Management will move to Missouri to lead the Department of Natural Resources under Gov. Eric Greitens. Greitens announced Wednesday that Carol Comer will be the newest addition to his cabinet. Comer worked under Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who will be sworn in Friday…
Las Vegas, NV (KTRS) – A teenager and his mother are in custody in connection with the death of a Missouri State University football player who tried to stop a fight involving his sister. Police say the 17-year-old suspect was booked into juvenile detention Tuesday on suspicion of murder with a deadly weapon in the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The search continues for two suspects after a teenager was gunned down in north St. Louis. Police say 15-year-old Toni Stevenson was sitting in a car along Thekla in the Walnut Park neighborhood around 7 p.m. Tuesday, when two masked men with assault rifles approached her and opened fire. Toni…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A federal magistrate has ruled former U.S. Congressman Aaron Schock will be tried this summer on federal corruption charges. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins on Tuesday set the July 11 date for Schock’s trial on fraud, filing a false tax return, theft of government funds and falsification of Federal Election Commission filings…