SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says he’ll send a bill that overhauls how Illinois doles out money to schools to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desk on Monday. The Republican governor has said he’ll use his amendatory powers to rewrite the bill and send it back to the Senate over objections to funding…
MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities in southwestern Missouri’s Webster County say a recently divorced man killed his two young sons before setting his house on fire and killing himself. KYTV reports that firefighters responding about 2 a.m. Sunday to a reported house fire near Marshfield found the three bodies include a bedroom of the damaged…
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s database of banned character combinations on license plates has grown over the past 40 years to include more than 7,000 arrangements of letters and numbers deemed too offensive. State legislators first got involved with personalized license plates in 1977 and the rules for obscene plates have remained the same since…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police in Ferguson are investigating a shooting that killed one person and critically injured another. Ferguson officers who responded to a report of several masked suspects “lurking” about 10 p.m. Friday found two semi-conscious victims of gunshot wounds. One of those victims died a short time later at a hospital. Authorities…
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a Manhattan couple apparently distraught over their finances jumped from the man’s ninth-floor Madison Avenue office window and died. Fifty-three-year-old chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia Colant, 50, were found Friday morning. Police say they each had suicide notes that referenced financial problems. Chief of detectives Robert Boyce…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after the body of a man was found in north St. Louis. Police say the discovery was made Saturday morning along the 5000 block of Wells Avenue. The victim suffered a gunshot wound according to investigators. The victim’s name has not yet been released.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock says he is free of cancer more than three months after the 78-year-old St. Louis Cardinals great announced he had been diagnosed with a type of blood cancer. Brock said in a statement Friday that a doctor’s diagnosis that he had conquered multiple myeloma…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri state workers in Jefferson City are getting an extra holiday this year — Aug. 21, the day of the solar eclipse. State officials said Friday that with up to 50,000 visitors expected in Jefferson City to see the eclipse from one of the best viewing spots in the nation,…