SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed legislation that gives retiring police dogs the chance to be adopted by their handlers. With the new law, retiring dogs will first be offered to an officer for adoption or be given to a no-kill shelter. Currently, it is up to the village manager, mayor or…
( KTRS ) A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place at a Funeral home. On August 8th police were called to a funeral home in 3900 block of Washington for a shooting. Upon arrival officers found 39 yr old George Calmese Jr and another victim lying on the sidewalk.…
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WASHINGTON (AP) –Â Bill Clinton says it was a mistake for Hillary Clinton to maintain a personal email server even though her predecessors and her successor at the State Department did it. But the former president says his wife should have known that there would be a different set of rules applied to her if she…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Sweden is digging in on a proposal to ban imports of live lobsters into the European Union after a rebuke from American scientists, and the issue could go all the way to the World Trade Organization. Sweden asked the European Union to bar imports of live American lobsters into the bloc…
WASHINGTON, Mo. (AP) – Construction is scheduled to begin Monday on a new Missouri River bridge at the eastern Missouri town of Washington. Gov. Jay Nixon was in Washington Friday for a groundbreaking ceremony. The new bridge carrying Highway 47 traffic will replace an old, narrow bridge that was built more than 80 years ago.…
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Police in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield are searching for a man who broke into a home, robbed a couple and locked them in a closet. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the crime happened Thursday night. The man and woman were not injured. Police say the intruder hid his…
CHICAGO (AP) – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is taking the rare step of weighing in on Illinois’ handling of a health insurance rate increase request. Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state’s leading insurer, is suggesting price increases for 2017 ranging from 23 percent to 45 percent for individual health plans. Illinois Department of Insurance regulators…
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. retail sales were unchanged in July from the previous month, a sign that consumers were cautious after three months of solid gains. The Commerce Department says Americans spent less at clothing shops, sporting goods stores and electronics and appliance outlets. Spending at grocery stores fell by the most in more than…
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Republican Donald Trump is now saying that his description of President Barack Obama as a founder of the Islamic State group was sarcasm. At a rally Wednesday, Trump said that Obama “is the founder of ISIS,” using one acronym for the group. He repeated that in two interviews Thursday. But in…