CHICAGO (AP) – The unemployment rate dropped across Illinois in May to 6.4 percent, but state officials attributed the drop to a decrease in the size of the state’s workforce. The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday that unemployment fell from 6.6 percent in April. It was the first decline in the jobless rate…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A man who posted threatening messages against black people on an anonymous social media app during racial protests at the University of Missouri last year has been sentenced to probation. Hunter Park was a Missouri University of Science and Technology student on Nov. 10 when he posted the messages on Yik…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois has borrowed $550 million for construction at what Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration says is a record-low interest rate despite the state’s beleaguered financial position. Rauner’s office announced Thursday that it sold $550 million in bonds at an interest rate of 3.7 percent. That’s below the 4 percent interest offered when…
(KTRS) – Many St. Louis area residents could be having problems with cell phone service today. The website DownDetector shows that there is a large AT&T outage in the Wentzville area, but some customers in St. Louis are also reporting problems. You can see a live and updating outage map here.
The vessel searching for the wreckage has managed to safely pull the “memory unit which is the most important in the recorder.”
The plan is a product of a task force studded with Republican conservatives
The museum has built up a large collection, including guns and other artifacts from the first fighting of the Revolutionary War
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gov. John Kasich says he’s still not ready to endorse Donald Trump as the Republican Party presidential nominee. Kasich says, “I’m not making any final decision yet but at this point I just can’t do it.” Kasich, who finished well behind Trump in the delegate hunt, conceded in an interview on MSNBC’s…
The textbook’s author told the newspaper that he did not object to the deletion
