Springfield IL (KTRS) Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a $45 billion plan Friday to build and upgrade bridges, roads, schools, and parks across the state. Pritzker says “Rebuild Illinois” is the most comprehensive reconstruction effort in his state’s history and the projects will create 540,000 jobs. The plan sets aside $33.2 billion for transportation projects, $4.3…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) U.S. Congressman Lacy Clay is taking steps that would allow high crime cities to have stricter gun laws. The Democratic lawmaker from Missouri unveiled his proposed legislation during a Friday morning press conference at Children’s Hospital. “In St. Louis and across this nation…we are faced with an ugly, obscene, inescapable truth…gun…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri commissioner on Friday ruled that the state’s only abortion clinic can continue providing the service at least until August as a fight over its license plays out, adding that there’s a “likelihood” that the clinic will succeed in the dispute. Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi granted what’s called…
Edwardsville, IL (KTRS) Two men and a teenager are apprehended in connection with rash of vehicle burglaries in the metro-east. According to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, 19-year-old Walker Moan of Alton and 18-year-old Roman Thomeczek of Godfrey were charged with several felonies Thursday. Starting in May, police began investigating several burglary reports where unlocked…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The body of a man is found in North City Wednesday night. Just before 6 o’clock, police responded to the 8300 block of Church Road in the Baden Neighborhood. Police are not saying how the man died, but homicide detectives are investigating.
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Funeral arrangements for an area police officer killed in the line of duty are set. Visitation will be from noon until 6 P.M. Sunday at Hoffmeister in St. Louis. The funeral is set for 10 A.M.Monday at the Cathedral Basilica, followed by burial at Resurrection Cemetery. Officer Michael Langsdorf, who was…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ new governor delivered on a top campaign promise Tuesday by signing legislation that makes the state the 11th to legalize small amounts of marijuana for recreational use and the second to approve it through the Legislature rather than the ballot box. Legalization in Illinois also means that nearly 800,000 people with…
Peoria, IL (KTRS) A guilty verdict is handed down for a former University of Illinois doctoral student charged in the slaying of a visiting scholar from China. Brendt Christensen was convicted Monday, and will now be sentenced in the 2017 kidnapping and stabbing death of Yingying Zhang. There is no death penalty in Illinois, but…
Wellston, MO (KTRS) The suspect accused in the fatal shooting of an officer with the North County Police Cooperative is now facing murder charges. Twenty-six-year-old Bonnette Meeks has been charged on several counts, including first-degree murder in the shooting death of Officer Michael Langsdorf. The 40-year-old officer was shot after responding to a call for…
Wellston, MO (KTRS) The community is mourning after a police officer responding to a bad check complaint is shot and killed in North County. North County Police Cooperative Chief John Buchannan says that 40-year-old officer Michael Langsdorf responded to a call Sunday just after 4:30 at Clay’s Food Market in the 6200 block of Page…