SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois schools will be required to teach financial literacy skills such as balancing a checkbook and putting money into a savings account this school year. The Illinois State Board of Education adopted revised social science standards in 2015, according to The Springfield Journal-Register . Those standards were approved in February 2016…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some Democrats say they want to reverse changes in a new Missouri whistleblower law that excludes state employees and public college and university workers from protections against being fired for speaking out against misconduct. Supporters of the law say their goal was to allow safeguards already outlined in court rulings…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two men are dead in separate shootings in north St. Louis. Police say a man was shot to death at just before 10:30 p.m. Friday near North Grand and Montgomery. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. Then at just after 7 a.m. Saturday, a 25-year-old man was fatally shot near Semple…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two men are facing charges in connection with a police-involved shooting in north St. Louis. Twenty-six-Year-old Wendell Davis has been charged with gun theft, unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful possession of a gun, resisting arrest and tampering with a motor vehicle. Twenty-nine-year-old Joshua Polk is charged with resisting arrest and…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two police officers remain hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in north St. Louis. Both officers — a 35-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman — are being treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds to their legs and hands, and facial wounds caused by shrapnel. Two suspects were taken into…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A verdict has yet to come down from the judge who’s deciding the fate of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who is accused of fatally shooting Anthony Lamar Smith during a police chase back in 2011. Albert Watkins is the attorney for Smith’s five-year-old son and the son’s mother. He says…
Uneasiness in St. Louis as verdict nears in officer’s trial By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — As a judge weighs evidence in the first-degree murder case against a former white St. Louis police officer charged with killing a black suspect, there is growing uneasiness that the city could see the sort of unrest…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two police officers were shot in north St. Louis. Authorities say this happened Friday afternoon neart 14th Street and Cass Avenue. Both officers are said to be in stable condition. This is a developing story. More details will be released as information becomes available.
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is dead and a woman is hospitalized after being shot overnight in south St. Louis. Police say the shooting happened at just before 2:30 Friday morning on Pennsylvania and Osage. The surviving victim is listed in stable condition. There’s no word of any arrests or a motive. This comes…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Governor Bruce Rauner is seeking federal help for people in four northern Illinois counties affected by flooding and severe storms this summer. Rauner’s office said Friday he asked President Donald Trump to approve federal assistance for property owners in Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties. If the help is approved, people…