JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s communications director is joining presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign as deputy chief of staff. Nixon’s office on Tuesday announced Channing Grate will start her new job Friday. Grate’s held her job with the Democratic governor since January 2013. She previously served as communications and research chief for…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS)  Four organizations of finalists are being considered to serve as an independent monitor of Ferguson’s consent decree. On Tuesday night, residents heard from the finalists during a community forum at the Ferguson Community Center. The finalists are Ebevy YG, Lemire LLC,  Squire Patton Boggs, and  Police Performance Consultants. Felicia Pulliam of the Lemire LLC team says…
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(KTRS) – The man who admitted to a vicious attack on a Cardinals fan, faces decades behind bars. Kilwa Jones admitted in federal court to shooting and robbing Christopher Sanna last September. As part of his guilty plea, Jones faces between 25 and 35 years in prison. Jones still faces charges connected to the crime…
CHICAGO (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner has announced a commission to help overhaul Illinois’ outdated school funding formula. The Republican told reporters on Tuesday that the bipartisan group of 25 people will study the issue and give their recommendations to his office and the General Assembly by Feb. 1, 2017. The complicated way that Illinois…
(KTRS) – A St. Louis county man will spend the next 20 years in prison for supplying the heroin to someone who later overdosed. The victim in this case was the girlfriend of Jerry Harvey’s 17-year-old son. Katherine Culley was found unresponsive in November 2014, the morning after Harvey gave her the heroin. The judge…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign says the Democratic candidate will appear in Springfield this week. Clinton’s campaign said in a news release Tuesday morning that she would speak Wednesday morning at the Old State House in the Illinois capital. The campaign says she will “discuss building an America that is stronger together…
CHICAGO (AP) – Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich gave up his life-sized Elvis Presley statue when he went to prison in 2012, but not his love for the King. Blagojevich’s attorney says in court documents arguing for a reduction in his 14-year sentence that he has studied guitar and formed a band named after one…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A prominent Black Lives Matter activist arrested in Louisiana while protesting the killing of a black man during a struggle with white police officers says he is returning to Baltimore. DeRay Mckesson said on his Twitter account Tuesday that a judge had granted his request to leave Louisiana and he…
