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Backers fight to get medical marijuana on Missouri ballot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Supporters of a proposal to allow medical marijuana in Missouri say thousands of signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot were wrongly tossed out. A lawyer for the group New Approach Missouri told a circuit judge Monday that enough registered voters signed a petition to get the measure…
Pilot Hospitalized After Plane Crash In Chesterfield
Chesterfield, MO (KTRS) A pilot is hospitalized after his plane crashed in Chesterfield. Authorities say the small plane went down near Spirit of St. Louis Airport around 8 p.m. Sunday. Rescue crews searched in the dark for about two hours before finding the downed plane. The pilot was the only one on board. There’s no…
Reward Offered In Cab Driver’s Murder
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information in the murder of a St. Louis cab driver. Last Wednesday, 38-year-old Timothy Grace was found shot to death inside of his cab in the Central West End. Anyone with any information should contact CrimeStoppers. Investigators believe robbery was the…
Suspicious device at NJ train station being investigated
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) – Investigators are examining a suspicious device found in a trash can near a New Jersey train station, and service on the busy Northeast Corridor line has been suspended. Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage says two men called police and reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package after finding…
Illinois schools eliminating zero-tolerance policies
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois schools are now required to limit long-term suspensions and expulsions under a new law that also eliminates the use of zero-tolerance policies used to severely punish students for certain offenses. The law that took effect last week is designed to reduce the number of days students are pulled from classrooms…
St. Louis Catholic school to close after enrollment decline
MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) – Five years after St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson launched an effort to increase enrollment at the region’s Catholic schools, enrollment continues to decline. That led to an announcement Friday that John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester will close at the end of this year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
Attendace down, revenue up from last years Illinois State Fair.
( KTRS ) Illinois State Fair officials say numbers this year were down from the last. A report shows that attendance, for the fair that ran from Aug 11th to the 21st, was around 357,000. Heavy rains and high temps are believed to be the reason numbers weren’t as high as last years. During the…