( KTRS ) Update: 14 yr old Christian has been located safe. —— The New Madrid County Sheriff’s Department has issued an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing teenager. Authorities say 14 yr old Christian Blair Burton hasn’t been seen since early Monday morning when her father left for work around 6:50am. Christian’s mother told…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis man is charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of his son. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 22-year-old Deveontay Bell also was charged Sunday with felony child abuse resulting in death. He is jailed on $500,000 cash-only bond. Police were called to Bell’s home Friday. The…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed measures that would increase wages for workers who care for those with developmental disabilities and expand a child care program for low-income families. The Republican governor said there isn’t enough money to support the proposals. The Chicago Tribune reports that he has used the same argument…
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â Â Three people are dead and two are injured following two separate shootings in St. Louis over the weekend. The latest shooting happenedSunday night when a man was fatally shot on Page and Union in north St. Louis. The name of the victim hasn’t been released. There’s no word of any arrests.…
HIGHLAND, Ill. (AP) – A roadway through a rural stretch of southern Illinois has been named for a 33-year-old Green Beret killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2008. On Saturday, friends and community members gathered at an American Legion post in Highland to dedicate the stretch of highway that was the final leg…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) – Researchers say an Illinois law that locks in tuition rates for in-state students appears to have the unintended effect of driving up tuition for out-of-state students and fees for all. The law, which took effect in 2004, guarantees that a student starting as a freshman at a state university will pay…
