( KTRS ) Gov. Bruce Rauner has been butting heads with Illinois Democrats on many things during his first term, including the long drawn out budget impasse. Recently though, he has bucked the party line on legislation the GOP has fervently opposed: Expanding birth control coverage and access to abortions. Neither bill received a single…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri’s largest airport could soon get a name change. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the region’s airport commission is considering changing the name of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to St. Louis International Airport at Lambert Field. The airport is named for Albert Bond Lambert, who learned to fly with the Wright…
CHICAGO (AP) – The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting three pregnant women are among 46 cases of Zika virus in the state. Department officials say five pregnant women are awaiting test results from the Centers for Disease Control to determine if they have the virus. Zika, which is spread to people through mosquito…
(KTRS) – Some new information regarding a man accused of stabbing his mother and brother to death. Darquise Gowdy was arrested for the murder of his mother Tyra Shannon and 16-year-old brother Lawrence Stawbridge. The Post-Dispatch reports that court documents state that the victims were killed at least a day or two before their bodies…
(KTRS) – St. Louis Police are looking for the suspect seen starting a fire at the Ole North Town Bar and Grill in May. The suspect is described as a black male with a large build and a goatee. Please call CrimeStoppers if you have any information at 1-866-371-8477. We have the video at ktrs.com.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration has suspended a no-overtime policy for workers who care for disabled residents in their homes. Secretary of Human Services James Dimas says his agency will seek a policy through an administrative rules process with the Illinois Legislature’s consent. The home-care workers’ union – SEIU Healthcare Illinois –…
FULTON, Mo. (AP) – The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for sections of a central Missouri county because of a failing dam on a small lake. The weather service issued the warning Wednesday for parts of Callaway County because the dam at Glovers Spring Lake east of Fulton is failing. When…
( KTRS ) Residents in Illinois, legally allowed to do so, purchased $2.9 million worth of medical marijuana products last month. Officials say June purchases were around $2.5 million, adding that sales have gradually climbed since the pilot program began in November. Illinois now has nearly 89 hundred qualified medical marijuana patients and 40 registered…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A southern Illinois man has received a 45-year prison sentence for the production, distribution and receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce said Wednesday 34-year-old Miguel Angel Vasquez Torres of Beckemeyer admitted to repeatedly sexually abusing a minor over the course of several years and photographing the…