WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is today focusing on the challenges facing the St. Louis area, which has one of the highest rates of opioid addiction and overdose deaths in Missouri, during Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week. St. Louis has the highest rates of hospital utilization for opioid overuse in the state.…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) The chance of a motorist hitting a deer on a Missouri roadway is increasing. Missouri drivers are more likely to collide with a deer in the coming year than they were last year. This is according to new claims data from State Farm Insurance. The odds drivers will hit a deer…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says work continues to “root out” improper patronage hiring in state government. The Republican told reporters Monday that he wants to expand the staff of the executive inspector general but the lack of a state budget has slowed that effort. Rauner trumpeted the dismissal of 29 remaining “staff…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis police say a 19-year-old man has died nine months after he was shot in the head on a city street. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Antonio Perkins died Sunday night, and his death linked to the Dec. 15 shooting was reclassified as a homicide. There was no immediate…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri initiative to re-instate campaign contribution limits has cleared its final legal hurdle to appear on the November ballot. The state Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request to hear a challenge of the proposed constitutional amendment. The proposal known as Constitutional Amendment 2 would limit contributions to candidates…
( KTRS ) Police say a suspected carjacker was fatally shot by the person he tried to rob. Investigators say the 52-year-old owner of the vehicle told police that when an armed man approached him and demanded his vehicle, he feared for his safety and fired his gun. The suspect then fled, but investigators say…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Supporters of a proposal to allow medical marijuana in Missouri say thousands of signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot were wrongly tossed out. A lawyer for the group New Approach Missouri told a circuit judge Monday that enough registered voters signed a petition to get the measure…
Chesterfield, MO (KTRS) A pilot is hospitalized after his plane crashed in Chesterfield. Authorities say the small plane went down near Spirit of St. Louis Airport around 8 p.m. Sunday. Rescue crews searched in the dark for about two hours before finding the downed plane. The pilot was the only one on board. There’s no…
