CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Last month was one of the warmest Septembers on record in Illinois. State climatologist Jim Angel says September’s average temperature was nearly 71 degrees, or 4.5 degrees above normal. State records go back to 1895. September of this year was tied for sixth place with the year 2005. The warmest September…
A Bellefontaine Neighbors police officer is recovering after a traffic accident. Fox 2 news reports that the incident took place Monday night around 7:15pm, in St. Louis County. The officer was responding to a call for a disturbance when their cruiser was struck by an SUV at the intersection of Hornsby and Broadway. The officer…
( KTRS ) A man walked into a Casey’s general store in Alton, IL. last week, claiming he had been shot in a meet up from Graiglist. Now authorities have discovered that he was shot, during a home break in. 29 yr old Brenton Webster, of Wood River has been charged with home invasion, armed…
CHICAGO (AP) – The attorney general for Illinois is calling on state lawmakers to pass legislation removing statutes of limitations for child sex abuse crimes in response to the case against former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office says state lawmakers have four similar proposals pending on the matter. The soonest…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Associated Press asked Missouri’s gubernatorial candidates about education funding in advance of the Nov. 8 election. Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster says he’ll fully fund the state’s foundation formula “as quickly as possible.” Republican former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens says the focus should be on results in the classroom,…
(KTRS) – Problems at another fraternity on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. The Post-Dispatch reports that the Kappa Alpha chapter was suspended for a hazing incident. The university is releasing very few details about the incident, other than to say it happened last week. The fraternity’s suspension means they cannot participate in homecoming events this month.
Roberts, who hasn’t been arrested or charged, says everything that happened that night was “absolutely consensual.”
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois state Treasurer Michael Frerichs says Wells Fargo will lose millions of dollars in fees after the state suspended $30 billion in investment activity with the troubled bank Monday. Frerichs said at a news conference in Chicago that Illinois will stop using Wells Fargo as a broker-dealer to purchase investments because…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) One person is dead and another is injured following a late night shooting in north St. Louis. Police say the shooting happened at around 11 p.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of Natural Bridge. One of the victims died at the scene and the other suffered non-life threatening injuries. The name…
