SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Illinois’ largest public pension system says the state needs to contribute 10 percent more to its fund next year, an increase of roughly $400 million over this year. The State Journal-Register reports the Teachers’ Retirement System says the state needs to put more than $4.8 billion into the retirement fund for the…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence has rallied hundreds of fellow Republicans in Kansas City to boost Senate candidate Josh Hawley in Missouri and governor candidate Kris Kobach in Kansas. Pence’s speech Friday to a crowd of several hundred people at a Kansas City, Missouri, basketball arena mixed remarks touting President Donald…
HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) – Four alleged members or associates of a white supremacist gang known as the Aryan Circle have been indicted after an assault in eastern Missouri. The indictment says the four, and others, assaulted a person called “C.B.” in Jefferson County in November 2013. The indictment says the four, and others, assaulted a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is taking his immigration message to Missouri as he continues his campaign rally blitz leading up to the midterm elections. Trump is set to appear Thursday night in Columbia, home of the state’s largest university. It will be his second rally in an 11-stop, eight-state tour designed to boost…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities say four people have been charged with killing and robbing a man after luring him to a St. Louis neighborhood under the guise of a drug deal. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Rachel Nixon, 27-year-old Ammizabad Johnson, 40-year-old Karen Ann Quinn and 25-year-old Darean Marshall were charged this week…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A Ferguson protester has said she believes her son was killed in retaliation for her activism, even as police investigate the man’s death as a suicide. Relatives found 24-year-old Danye Jones hanging by a bed sheet from a tree behind the family home on Oct. 17. St. Louis County police…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A growing movement to curb partisan gerrymandering will be put to the test Tuesday by several state ballot measures that are intended to overhaul the way congressional and state legislative districts are drawn. While they differ in how to do that, the proposals in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah all…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — The chairwoman of the Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission says an inspector general to investigate alleged misconduct will be appointed by next month. Republican Rep. Avery Bourne of Raymond heads the bipartisan panel of eight legislators. She says the commission will interview candidates recommended by an independent committee which met Thursday’s deadline.…
The Coast Guard has rescued a man from the Mississippi River after he was involved in a two-car accident Thursday morning at around 8:30 on the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. St. Louis firefighters report the man, who was wearing a hospital gown, jumped 100 feet into the river and was in the water for…
(KTRS) St. Louis MOÂ Expect longer voter lines Tuesday in this year’s mid-term elections. Election officials are preparing for the greater turnout. There are 52 issues to vote on this Ballot. Election officials say they are worried about long lines and reportedly are going to have more volunteers on staff. They say they will have…