JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s secretary of state will announce whether voters can weigh in on cigarette taxes and campaign contribution limits. The office faces a Tuesday deadline to determine whether those initiatives and others received enough signatures to get on the Nov. 8 ballot. One proposed constitutional amendment would cap campaign donations at…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The State Historical Society of Missouri has revealed conceptual drawings of a planned $35 million research center and museum. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the three-story Center for Missouri Studies will house museum galleries on the first floor and collections of manuscripts and newspapers set aside for researchers on the…
The closed Union station in downtown St. Louis will soon be getting a huge makeover. The St. Louis Post dispatch reports that a developer is planning on spending $45 million to turn the failed mall into an aquarium. Officials with ‘Lodging Hospitality Management’, owner of the downtown landmark, say construction will hopefully begin this fall…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A new fire station is set to open next month on the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University. Edwardsville Fire Chief Rick Welle tells the Belleville News-Democrat the facility is framed and construction is nearly complete. The $3.8 million fire station will serve the campus and the city’s growing west side.…
CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge is set to decide whether to cut the 14-year prison term given to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich after an appellate court threw out several of his corruption convictions. A resentencing hearing is scheduled Tuesday in Chicago federal court. The 59-year-old Democrat will appear on a courtroom screen at…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A group backing medical marijuana in Missouri says it doesn’t have enough valid signatures but will go to court to get a proposed constitutional amendment on November’s ballot. New Approach Missouri campaign spokesman Jack Cardetti said Monday that the initiative is short about 2,200 signatures in a congressional district that…
(KTRS) – A suspect is in custody after a double shooting at a funeral home just west of downtown St. Louis. Police say that a visitation was underway at the Reliable Funeral Home on Washington Boulevard when a fight started. Witnesses said the argument moved outside and that is when the shooting began. One man…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is defending his record after the head of the state’s public defender system appointed him to a case in protest of recent funding restrictions. Director Michael Barrett in a letter last week said budget cuts have prevented his office from hiring enough public defenders for those…
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