MAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) – A class-action lawsuit has been filed saying the city of Maplewood violates the U.S. Constitution by requiring defendants to pay cash to recall their arrest warrants. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the lawsuit was filed Tuesday by ArchCity Defenders, a nonprofit law group. According to the lawsuit, Maplewood’s municipal courts…
( KTRS ) Union employees of Shop ‘n Save have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract. The vote among members of United Food & Commercial Workers Local 655 was 170 to 72 in favor of the contract. A similar pact was approved a Tuesday night by union workers at Dierbergs and last week by Schnucks…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The house Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife are planning to move into during renovations of the Illinois Executive Mansion is just a bit larger than the carriage house at the governor’s current home. The State Journal-Register reports the Rauners plan to relocate to the Director’s House at the Illinois State…
(KTRS) – One person is in custody after an incident at 270 and Ladue road Wednesday. MoDOT was forced to close the southbound lanes of the highway and during the closure, traffic cameras captured a person walking up the ramp to the interstate. The person then engaged in a brief standoff with police, but it…
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities in eastern Missouri’s Ste. Genevieve County are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains in a rural area where a woman missing since 2014 had lived. Sheriff Gary Stolzer tells media outlets the remains were found Tuesday night by a hunter, and that the FBI has been called in to…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri says four students have confirmed cases of mumps and five other students are being tested. The university said in a news release Wednesday that none of the students live in university housing. Some of the students who have been tested are still contagious and the university has…
Jefferson City, MO  (KTRS)   The University of Missouri has a new leader. On Wednesday morning, the University of Missouri Board of Curators announced the appointment of Dr. Mun Y. Choi as it’s new system president. Board of Curators Chair Pam Henrickson introduced Dr. Choi  in Jefferson City, making the announcement of the new president of the…
( KTRS ) Tuesday night union employees with Dierbergs supermarkets overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract. The vote among members of United Food & Commercial Workers was 520 to 107.  Local 655 began negotiations with Dierbergs and Shop ‘n Save immediately following a revised contract accepted by Schnucks employees last week. Shop ‘n Save workers will…
