SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – State and local law enforcement officials are warning motorists to “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” during the Labor Day weekend. The Illinois Department of Transportation and the Illinois State Police are teaming up with nearly 200 local police agencies to reduce fatalities on the heavily traveled weekend. Police officers will be…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois election officials say they’ll mail notices to about 700 voters whose records were viewed during a cyberattack on the state’s voter registration system database last month and more could follow. In a Wednesday news release, the Illinois State Board of Elections says it “strongly” suspects another 86,000 records were viewed…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) A group of would-be inmates are getting a chance at a new start. On Wednesday afternoon, 31 participants graduated from the St. Charles County Court Treatment program, which allows those with alcohol or drug related offenses to enroll in a year-long court supervised treatment program as an alternative to jail…
(KTRS) – Police in O’Fallon, Missouri issued a Silver Advisory after an 85-year-old man went missing. Billie Jo Hubbard was last seen picking up a prescription on North Main St in O’Fallon Wednesday morning around 11:15. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the nearest police.
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – Relatives of a 25-year-old St. Louis County Justice Center inmate who hanged himself are questioning why he wasn’t on suicide watch. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 25-year-old Micah Joel Lees of Lake St. Louis was found hanging in his cell Monday. Relatives say he was taken off life support at…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An online reporter whose stories have been critical of Missouri’s death penalty procedures alleges in a federal lawsuit that he’s wrongly been excluded from being an execution witness. The American Civil Liberties Union’s suit Wednesday on Buzzfeed News reporter Christopher McDaniel’s behalf asks a judge to block anyone other than…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Vaping shops are calling for e-cigarettes to be excluded from the so-called “Tobacco 21” ordinance in St. Louis County. The St. Louis County Council approved the measure which calls for raising the age from 18 to 21 to buy tobacco products. Owners and employees of area vaping shops object to…
