JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers has prevailed over the leaders of both parties to approve deeper budget cuts to the University of Missouri. Lawmakers voted 83-75 Tuesday to transfer $1 million from the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus to Lincoln University in Jefferson City. The House speaker, majority floor…
(KTRS) Former University of Missouri assistant professor Melissa Click is appealing her firing, last month, over her role last year in race-related student protests. Click says her dismissal by university system curators was unfair. In firing Click, top university administrators cited her run-ins with police during October protests and with two student journalists weeks later…
(KTRS) – Police continue to search for a man connected five murders across Kansas and Missouri. Investigators want Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino for questioning regarding four murders in Kansas City, Kansas. Then today, police were called to a home in New Florence, Missouri. There they found 49-year-old Randy Nordman, and believe he may be Serrano-Victorino’s fifth…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Democrats are vowing to keep talking to block a vote on a proposed constitutional amendment granting greater religious protections to some business owners and individuals who object to gay marriage. Debate on the measure began around 4:20 p.m. Monday and stretched without a break into Tuesday. Some opponents vowed…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois legislators from both parties are continuing to fine-tune the state’s concealed carry law nearly three years after it was passed. The State Journal-Register reports that legislators have proposed including public transportation, interstate highway rest areas, public parks and athletic facilities as areas in which permit holders are allowed to carry…
ALTON, Ill. (AP) – Illinois communities affected by flooding more than two months ago are still waiting to hear whether they will receive assistance from the federal government. The Alton Telegraph reports that thousands of Missouri residents who were affected by flooding gained access to federal aid after President Barack Obama declared in January that…
St. Louis, MO  (KTRS)  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will make a campaign stop later this week in St. Louis. The G-O-P frontrunner is scheduled to speak at the Peabody Opera House in downtown St. Louis at noon on Friday. This will be followed by another campaign event for Trump in Chicago on Friday evening. These…
New Florence, MO  (KTRS)   A manhunt is underway in rural Missouri for a quadruple murder suspect. Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino is wanted for questioning for four fatal shootings Monday night in Kansas City, Kansas. Authorities say Serrano-Vitorino’s  pickup truck was found in New Florence, Missouri.  The Missouri State Highway Patrol is searching the area. Police…
