JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A federal judge has denied Planned Parenthood’s request for a Columbia clinic to be temporarily exempted from certain abortion regulations. U.S. Western District Court Judge Brian Wimes on Wednesday ruled against Planned Parenthood. The organization had asked Wimes to exempt the Columbia center from a state requirement that doctors must…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities are looking for two women captured on surveillance video stealing security cameras from a Missouri home improvement store. St. Louis County police said in a Facebook post that the thefts happened on two separate occasions in September at a Menards store in the western part of the county. On Sept. 5,…
Festus, MO (KTRS) A woman is dead following a fire at a mobile home in Festus. Firefighters responded to the burning mobile home on Scenic Lane around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Upon arrival, firefighters found the woman’s body. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. There’s no word on what may have caused the fire.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner attacked Democrat J.B. Pritzker, last night, calling Pritzker a “trust fund baby” and a tax cheat. The debate held in Chicago, was the first of two debates. Pritzker is the billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker blasted multimillionaire, Rauner, for covering up a deadly legionnaires disease outbreak at a…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas is asking Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri to remove his name and praise for her from a new campaign ad. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Roberts wants McCaskill to remove from the ad his quote from August 2017 describing her as a…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office has opened an investigation into the management by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration of a Legionnaire’s disease crisis at a state-run veterans’ home. Eileen Boyce is spokeswoman for the Democratic attorney general. She said Wednesday that authorities will review whether laws were broken and whether residents,…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The son of the founder of a popular southwest Missouri cafe has pleaded not guilty to child sex trafficking. Fifty-year-old Benjamin Lambert posted $100,000 bond after entering the plea Wednesday. His attorney said Lambert is living in a nursing home in the Sikeston area. Lambert is accused of paying two children…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — As the floodwaters recede and the recovery begins, communities swamped by Hurricane Florence soon will be facing deadlines to document the billions of dollars in damage it caused if they want to be reimbursed by the federal government.A missed deadline could be costly, even if it’s not directly the fault…
QUINCY, IL (AP) — Authorities say two nursing home residents and two employees were killed when the bus they were riding slammed head-on into a grain truck in western Illinois. Illinois State Police say the 15-passenger bus caught fire after the crash Tuesday afternoon on U.S. 24 near Quincy and that all four people on…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A St. Louis man has been charged with fatally shooting a mother of five during an argument. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 38-year-old Lamont Parker was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Veronica Taylor. No attorney is listed for him in online court…