JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway says most audited local governments didn’t fully comply with open-records requests and about 16 percent didn’t respond at all. Galloway’s office released findings Tuesday from a sampling of Missouri’s more than 4,100 local governments. Her office in August sent Sunshine Law requests to more than 300…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A fundraiser dedicated in memory of murdered St. Louis hotel manager is being held today. More than 85 area restaurants are participating in the 2nd annual Scott Knopfel Memorial Dine-Out event. A portion of the proceeds will go to a scholarship fund for restaurant and hotel workers. “We wanted to continue…
BALDWIN, Ill. (AP) – A new plant to be built in southern Illinois is expected to employ 100 workers to turn coal ash into building materials. The (Belleville) News-Democrat reports that Randolph County officials lured the Australian company, Nu-Rock Technology, with a 100 percent property tax reduction for five years. The company plans to build…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Republican leaders who met with Gov. Bruce Rauner to discuss Illinois’ budget stalemate say Democrats’ absence is inexcusable and won’t help negotiations. GOP leaders state Rep. Jim Durkin and state Sen. Christine Radogno said Monday after their meeting with the Republican governor that their discussion was productive. But Durkin and Radogno…
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri father is facing child abuse charges after allegedly shoving his fingers down his infant son’s throat to make the baby stop crying. Investigators say 19-year-old Robert Burnette of Wentzville also threw his 6-week-old son onto a bed, violently shook him and picked him up by the back of his…
( KTRS ) Authorities have issued an Endangered person advisory for a missing 56 yr old woman. Missing is Kerry Lee Brueggeman, she was last seen around 12:30pm Monday afternoon in her room at the Tesson Heights Senior Living Center. Police say Kerry has been diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder, needs a walker or wheelchair to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Hundreds of people who were illegally jailed in a St. Louis suburb are eligible to share in a lawsuit settlement, but with the deadline approaching, most of them have not come forward. Officials with the non-profit law firm ArchCity Defenders and other advocates for minorities and the poor said at a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Three St. Louis-area school districts say they will end out-of-school suspensions for preschool students through third-grade students in the next two years. That announcement from the school districts of Ladue, Normandy, and Maplewood-Richmond Heights made at an assemblyon Sunday for the Break the Pipeline campaign, an effort spearheaded by Metropolitan Congregations…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri mega-donors say a newly approved constitutional amendment to cap campaign contributions won’t keep money out of politics. Almost 70 percent of voters on Tuesday approved capping donations to candidates at $2,600 per election. Checks to political parties can’t exceed $25,000. A spokesman for wealthy donor Rex Sinquefield says that…
