SWANSEA, Ill. (AP) – The southern Illinois city of Swansea is the latest in the region to allow residents to raise chickens in their backyards. The Belleville News Democrat reports that Swansea village leaders recently voted unanimously to allow chickens in neighborhoods that are zoned residential. That’s different than four years ago when the village…
VIENNA, Ill. (AP) – Authorities in southern Illinois have identified the four people who died after a single-engine plane crashed in a wooded area on New Year’s Eve. Johnson County Coroner David Rockwell says 34-year-old Curt Terpstra, 37-year-old Krista Green, 35-year-old Jordan Linder and his 26-year-old sister, Jasmine Linder, died in Saturday night’s crash. All…
( KTRS ) Authorities have released the identity of St. Louis’ first homicide victim in 2017. Police say that 41 yr old Korrey Miller was found fatally shot just after midnight Sunday in the 5200 block of Jamestown Bay Court in North County. A released report says the shooting happened after a disturbance occurred at…
BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) – Lt. Gov.-elect Mike Parson says he is recovering after undergoing heart surgery. He says he will be ready to take office on Inauguration Day next week. Parson released a statement Monday disclosing the surgery. He said the heart problem was discovered during a routine medical checkup. James Harris, an adviser to…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A southeast Missouri police chief and a St. Louis police captain will lead Missouri’s Department of Public Safety. Governor-Elect Eric Greitens has named Sikeston Police Chief and Public Safety Director Drew Juden as the new director of the Department of Public Safety, along with St. Louis Fire Captain Gregg Favre…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis federal judge says she wants to hear arguments over a lawsuit’s challenge of a new law limiting campaign contributions before deciding whether to put a temporary hold on such caps. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2hzODPq ) reports U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry held a hearing Thursday in St.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Republican Missouri lawmaker says he has a solution to end tense debates over same-sex marriage. Rep. T.J. Berry wants to take government out of marriage and leave it to houses of worship by classifying such legal partnerships as domestic unions. His bill, pre-filed ahead of the 2017 legislative session,…
The Missouri Attorney General’s Office will handle the murder retrial of Reginald Clemons. A circuit judge made that ruling on Thursday, just one day after St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce argued for the state to take over the case. Clemons was one of four men convicted in the 1991 murders of sisters Robin and…
