CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois regulators are moving to shut down a struggling health insurance co-op with 49,000 Illinois policyholders. Illinois Department of Insurance officials announced Tuesday they are seeking a court order to take over Land of Lincoln Health and prepare the company for liquidation. The department’s acting director, Anne Melissa Dowling, plans to work with…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri House Democratic leaders are calling for a GOP lawmaker to step down after he moved out of his district. Minority Leader Jake Hummel and Assistant Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty said in a letter dated Monday to Rep. Ron Hicks said he should resign immediately. Hicks didn’t immediately return an…
( KTRS ) A Ballwin police officer who was shot Friday during a traffic stop will require long-term care. The Ballwin Police department posted on its Facebook page Tuesday that Officer Mike Flamion and his family “will forever be changed by his injuries.” Further details were not released. Flamion has been hospitalized since the inciden, he was…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s communications director is joining presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign as deputy chief of staff. Nixon’s office on Tuesday announced Channing Grate will start her new job Friday. Grate’s held her job with the Democratic governor since January 2013. She previously served as communications and research chief for…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) Four organizations of finalists are being considered to serve as an independent monitor of Ferguson’s consent decree. On Tuesday night, residents heard from the finalists during a community forum at the Ferguson Community Center. The finalists are Ebevy YG, Lemire LLC, Squire Patton Boggs, and Police Performance Consultants. Felicia Pulliam of the Lemire LLC team says…
(KTRS) – The man who admitted to a vicious attack on a Cardinals fan, faces decades behind bars. Kilwa Jones admitted in federal court to shooting and robbing Christopher Sanna last September. As part of his guilty plea, Jones faces between 25 and 35 years in prison. Jones still faces charges connected to the crime…
CHICAGO (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner has announced a commission to help overhaul Illinois’ outdated school funding formula. The Republican told reporters on Tuesday that the bipartisan group of 25 people will study the issue and give their recommendations to his office and the General Assembly by Feb. 1, 2017. The complicated way that Illinois…
(KTRS) – A St. Louis county man will spend the next 20 years in prison for supplying the heroin to someone who later overdosed. The victim in this case was the girlfriend of Jerry Harvey’s 17-year-old son. Katherine Culley was found unresponsive in November 2014, the morning after Harvey gave her the heroin. The judge…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign says the Democratic candidate will appear in Springfield this week. Clinton’s campaign said in a news release Tuesday morning that she would speak Wednesday morning at the Old State House in the Illinois capital. The campaign says she will “discuss building an America that is stronger together…
