JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Republicans’ decadelong effort to require people to show photo identification when voting has cleared a major hurtle. Senate Democrats allowed a bill and a constitutional amendment to get initial approval Monday after about a month of stalling. Republicans agreed to allow people without photo ID to cast a ballot…
[vc_text_titles title=”Walk Like Madd” title_type=”h1″ page_title_type=”v1″ title_align=”left”] Don’t miss the mother of all walks! Sunday, May 15th, 2016 Creve Coeur Park-Tremayne Shelter Registration starts at 9am; Race starts at 10am Entertainment by DJ, a visit from the Cardinals’ Fredbird, and refreshments available for purchase from area food trucks! Raffle: Tickets courtesy of Apple Vacations, Apple…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Police have been busy after a violent weekend. Police say a man was shot and killed Sunday morning in the Walnut Park neighborhood of north St. Louis. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. There’s no word of any arrests. This brings the city’s murder count to at least 52…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Ameren Missouri is proposing two voluntary programs that would require customers’ to support more solar power. One program would ask residential customers to pay a bit more each month to finance a new solar plant. The second effort would look for commercial customers that would allow Ameren to install solar panels…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature is weighing a number of tax breaks for businesses as the session wraps up. Proposed tax breaks range from a package of small business incentives to an exemption for farmers who raise deer to sell their urine. The small business proposal is close to passage. Businesses with…
( KTRS ) The Bridgeton Police Department has issued an Endangered Silver Advisory Alert for a missing elderly woman. 71 yr old Delores Robinson, was last seen walking eastbound on foot from a Kohl’s department store on St. Charles Rock Road. Authorities report that Ms. Robinson suffers from dementia. She was last seen wearing a…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a mid-year increase to Missouri’s budget that adds more than $460 million in spending to the state’s current $26 billion budget. Nixon on Friday approved the additional spending, of which more than $150 comes from the federal government. Most of the additional spending will go…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge for now is leaving in place a preliminary injunction barring the state from revoking Planned Parenthood’s license to perform abortions at a Columbia clinic. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey is weighing the matter after a hearing Thursday. Attorneys for the Planned Parenthood of…
(KTRS) – One Illinois State Senator is calling on lawmakers to stop paying Dennis Hastert his taxpayer-funded pension. Hastert currently gets $28,000-a-year from his pension for his years of service as a state legislator. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in a hush-money case that revealed accusations that he sexually abused teenagers.
