SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Republicans are vastly outspending Democrats in fall legislative races with the help of a wealthy governor determined to upend the state’s political establishment. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has contributed $16 million to fund GOP candidates in House and Senate races to try to loosen the Democrats’ supermajorities in each chamber.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – John Slayton and the Illinois State Fairgrounds Foundation have their work cut out for them. Gov. Bruce Rauner named Slayton, Springfield banker, last month to head the new organization formed to raise money for repair and maintenance of the long-ignored state fairgrounds. The price tag: $180 million. Fair foundations in nearby states Minnesota…
( KTRS ) Gov. Jay Nixon is in St. Louis Monday greeting those attending the 48th annual Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference. The conference will be attended by the Governors of several Midwest states, government officials from Japan and representatives of businesses from both countries. Japan is Missouri’s fourth-largest trading partner, the country imported $507 million…
A man who was shot by a city marshal outside the St. Louis City Hall is now facing criminal charges. 34 yr old Kevin George of Collinsville IL, was released from the hospital Saturday and then taken to the St. Louis City Justice Center, where he is held on a $50,000 cash-only bond. He has…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois’ debt to the state’s health care providers continues to grow in the wake of the failure by legislators and the governor to agree on a budget. The Illinois Legislature’s bipartisan Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability reported in July that payment delays to insurance companies and providers for state employee…
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NEW YORK (AP) — The government’s homeland security secretary says the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against what he calls “another 9/11-style attack.” But Jeh (jay) Johnson — making the rounds of the Sunday news shows — says the country is “challenged when it comes to the prospects of the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A carriage company has been ordered to stop giving rides in St. Louis and St. Louis County after allegations that it used unlicensed drivers and worked horses on extremely hot days. The St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, which governs vehicles for hire, ordered Brookdale Farms to end the rides after a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a St. Louis city marshal shot a man after intervening in a violent dispute. Maj. Rochelle Jones says the shooting happened late Friday at City Hall. Jones says the man was shot three times in the leg and his injuries aren’t life-threatening. He apparently didn’t have a firearm. The…
(KTRS) – Donald Trump is expected to be in town Saturday. Ed Martin with the Eagle Forum confirmed that Trump is planning to attend the funeral of Phyllis Schlafly. She endorsed Trump during a campaign event in March. Schlafly died on Monday. Her funeral mass is scheduled for 2 pm tomorrow at the Cathedral Basilica…