JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former system president and a wealthy university donor will help review the University of Missouri following last year’s turmoil. GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson Wednesday named former system president Gary Forsee and Jeanne Sinquefield to an eight-member review commission. Sinquefield and her husband, conservative donor Rex Sinquefield, have given…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Jay Nixon is backing a proposed power line in Missouri that’s part of a multistate wind energy project. Nixon on Wednesday announced Clean Line Energy Partners has promised to adopt what he described as landowner protections. The project would transmit electricity from Kansas, across northern Missouri and Illinois to Indiana.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An effort to get the legendary Delta Queen riverboat back up and running on the Mississippi River and its tributaries has gotten a boost from the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. The committee on Wednesday agreed to reinstate an exemption for the 89-year-old vessel, which has been docked since 2009. The measure…
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St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis murder count continues to climb. This comes after a double shooting in north St. Louis. Police say a man and woman were in a car on Kingshighway and Vandeventer Tuesday afternoon when they were gunned down. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman suffered a…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has thrown out a $7.5 million judgment to a former St. Louis police officer who claimed her supervisor sexually harassed her, and that her complaints about the harassment resulted in retaliation. The ruling on Tuesday sent the case back to the trial court. The state Supreme Court…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Officials in southwestern Illinois are putting more money into a bid to make an ancient historic site a national park. The Cahokia Mounds is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. Archeologists say it was home to as many as 20,000 people in its heyday around 1100 A.D. The Bellville News-Democrat reports…
( KTRS ) The flow of cash to several state health services will stop this week if Illinois enters a second straight year without a budget. Not approving a spending plan by Friday could also mean schools won’t know whether they’ll stay open through the year, and vendors that have provided services without payments could file lawsuits to…
