CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has hired former state Comptroller Leslie Munger to serve as a deputy governor. In a statement released first to The Associated Press on Friday, Rauner says Munger will focus on long-term budgeting and work with human services organizations hit hard by the state budget impasse. Rauner appointed Munger…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Ferguson, Missouri, has dropped its appeal of a federal jury’s $3 million award to survivors of a naked, unarmed man who died after a police officer repeatedly shocked him with a stun gun and will pay the money. A federal judge in St. Louis on Wednesday deferred his approval of the…
( KTRS ) Police are investigating a Sunday night shooting in Dutchtown. Authorities report that a male victim was shot in the abdomen in 3400 block of Dunnica just after 8pm last night. Upon arrival officers found the victim conscious and breathing. The suspected shooter is said to be a black male wearing all black…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – About one-fourth of all people receiving in-home care services through Missouri Medicaid could be dropped from the program under a budget plan by Gov. Eric Greitens. The proposed eligibility changes were included as a cost-cutting measure in the $27.6 billion budget that Greitens released Thursday. The state budget office said…
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Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is looking for organizations throughout the state to help feed thousands of children during the summer months. The Summer Food Services Program provides nutritious meals to children under age 18 during the summer months when school breakfast and lunch programs are not…
Columbia, MO. (KTRS) – The University of Missouri Board of Curators has more vacancies to fill after Governor Eric Greitens withdrew the nomination of two of former Governor Jay Nixon’s appointees. Greitens on Tuesday withdrew the nominations of Patrick Graham and Jon Sunvold. Last month, two other Nixon appointees, Tom Voss and Mary Nelson, resigned.…
