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…
The on-going battle against heroin that never seems to improve
Preview of the upcoming 37th Annual St. Louis Half Marathon plus the Clayton P.D. 5K.
Another example of corporate welfare thanks to Missouri’s broken tax-incentive system?
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) Two are dead and one is injured following a home invasion in St. Charles County. Police say a man entered a home on Southwinds Drive at just before 4 a.m. Monday, where he confronted a resident, a young man, whom he reportedly knew. That’s when the father woke up to…
WARRENTON, Mo. (AP) – A desolate outlet mall near St. Louis may soon get a rebirth. The Warrenton Outlet Center was once a thriving spot along Interstate 70 in Warrenton, 55 miles west of St. Louis. The 200,000-square-foot property was one of the few outlet malls in Missouri when it opened in 1993, featuring discounts…
ST. ELMO, Ill. (AP) – It was an up-and-down-again winter and spring for southern Illinois peach growers. But despite iffy weather, the summer’s crop is strong. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports (http://bit.ly/2b5nSyi ) that the crop had to endure a frigid winter, excessively wet spring and some dry patches this summer. Marion County grower Tom Schwartz…