SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has rejected legislation that would prohibit retailers from charging fees on rebate cards. The Republican vetoed the measure Friday. It would have banned merchants and banks offering rebates to consumers from charging maintenance or dormancy fees . Rauner says so-called post-issuance fees are a way for businesses to recoup the…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois children must ride in rear-facing child-restraint seats in automobiles until age 2 under a law Gov. Bruce Rauner signed. The Republican OK’d the measure for small backseat passengers Friday. Rear-facing restraints are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics . Children taller than 40 inches or weighing more than 40 pounds are exempt. Rep.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police have arrested a man a day after he allegedly ran away from a traffic stop, leaving behind a van with 15 people inside. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the driver was arrested Friday as he walked along Highway 109 near Eureka. Police conducting a traffic stop Thursday say the driver…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters will likely get a chance to weigh in on proposals to change state redistricting, increase the state’s minimum wage and legalize medical marijuana when they head to the polls in November. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft on Thursday approved the initiatives for…
Update: Roy Charles Jones was located by family and a detective Earlier Story: ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis County Police have issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a Florissant man who left his home on the morning of June 30 to walk to St. Louis and has not been seen since. The man’s identified as…
Eureka, MO (KTRS) Over a dozen people are being questioned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a traffic stop in Eureka. Authorities say the Missouri Highway Patrol pulled over a van occupied by 15 people around 7:30 a.m. Thursday on eastbound I-44 near the Six Flags. That’s when the driver and a passenger…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Seven empty train cars derailed on Union Pacific train tracks in south St. Louis. The derailment happened just south of Chouteau and Wharf around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. Union Pacific spokesman Jeff DeGraff says the cars that derailed off the terminal rail bridge were empty. DeGraff says damage occurred to the bridge…
SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) – A Sedalia man has been charged with physically abusing three children over several years. Pettis County authorities on Tuesday charged 48-year-old James Hays Jr. with three counts of abuse or neglect of a child. He is being held on $1 million bond. The Sedalia Democrat reports the children are ages 12,…
KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating a report that a missing Iowa college student might have been seen in northwest Missouri. Police in Kearney, Missouri, say an employee at a truck stop reported Sunday that she saw a young girl resembling Mollie Tibbetts. The department said in a statement that it spoke to witnesses…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) One person is dead after an accident in north St. Louis. Police say a vehicle crashed into a utility pole on Hall Street and Carrie at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. This knocked out power for about 1,600 Ameren customers. The victim’s name hasn’t been released.