CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois State Police say a 17-year-old girl has been arrested in the weekend stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at the Illinois State Fair. A statement from the agency says the stabbing occurred Saturday night in the carnival area of the fair in Springfield. The brief statement says the 16-year-old girl was expected…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker is resigning to avoid a new waiting period for legislators to become lobbyists. Hartville Republican Rep. Tony Dugger stepped down Friday. In an interview with The Associated Press, he cited a law set to take effect Aug. 28 that will require lawmakers to wait six months after…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Ethics Commission says it has found no evidence that Republican state Sen. Kurt Schaefer improperly used his authority over state spending in an effort to keep an opponent out of the Republican primary for attorney general. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the commission told Schaefer about the…
CHICAGO (AP) – Gay rights advocates say an Illinois Supreme Court ruling is a step backward for same-sex couples and will also harm all unmarried domestic partners. The court on Thursday rejected 5-2 a claim by a Chicago woman who split up with her partner after nearly 30 years of living together. The two women…
Webster Groves, MO (KTRS) Police are calling the death of a Webster University student employee suspicious. Authorities say 42-year-old Chorsie Martin, hadn’t been heard from since last Friday. His body was discovered in his apartment Thursday morning after several attempts were made to contact him. Martin worked in the university’s IT department and was also…
A plan to dissolve the city’s recorder of deeds office and use the money from to buy police cameras has a lot of approval. To get on the November the two-part plan needed 20,000 signatures, so far, it has more than 40,000. The plan was thought up by Democratic state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed and Republican activist…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Board of Curators in support of a university law professor’s challenge to the campus firearms ban. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Boone County, Andrew Hirth, deputy general counsel for Attorney General Chris Koster, wrote that the…
WEST PLAINS, Mo. (AP) – Authorities have identified a woman whose remains were found earlier this week in southwest Missouri. West Plains Police Department spokesman Ron Redfield told the Ozark Radio Network (http://j.mp/2bq4HlU ) that the victim has been identified as 35-year-old Terri Jean Wright. She was reported missing on August 9. A 63-year-old man,…
