SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a proposal to fund community colleges and a grant program that helps students pay for college. Illinois Democrats approved a plan in January to provide $324 million to community colleges and $397 million to the Monetary Award Program. Rauner said Friday the plan would “explode the…
( KTRS ) The St. Peters Police Department has issued an endangered silver advisory for a missing woman. Authorities report that 80yr old Ida Brunkhorst was last scene in Ballwin, MO. after she was stopped by police. Brunkhorst, reportedly, told officers that she had gotten lost while driving home, after shopping. Police, now report that…
Jefferson City, MO (KTRS) – A St. Louis area lawmaker who resigned from the Missouri House this week admits that he had an affair. Republican Representative Don Gosen told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday that he began an affair in 2014. On the advice of his attorney, he gave no details about the events…
Arnold, MO (KTRS) Senator Roy Blunt is seeking a second term. The Republican lawmaker officially announced his re-election campaign Friday morning at at Unico-SGI Manufacturing in Arnold, the first of a 10-stop, two-day tour across the state. Blunt’s office says the location was chosen because he helped save the business from what it calls “onerous…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two suspects are being sought after a woman and her three children were carjacked at gunpoint outside of a grocery store in the Central West End. Police say this happened at around 1 a.m. Friday in the parking lot of Schnucks in the 4100 block of Lindell. The woman was waiting…
( KTRS ) A University of Missouri official says about $2 million in donations have been lost in fallout from the Columbia campus unrest last fall. Simmering tensions came to a head in November protests over what student activists saw as administrators’ indifference to racial problems at the Columbia campus. Protesters were backed by some…
( KTRS ) A former East St. Louis strip club bouncer who pleaded guilty to killing a man with his pickup truck is to return to court for sentencing. Thirty-three-year-old Reginald Allen of Dupo faces up to six years in prison Friday in St. Clair County. He was initially charged with reckless homicide in the…
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) – Fire officials say a man rescued from a fire at his duplex in Arnold has died. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1Q4GiOH ) reports that 57-year-old Kenneth Springman died at a hospital Tuesday night about an hour after he was rescued from his burning residence, where he apparently lived alone. Ron Harder,…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri-Columbia has reinstated the medical school dean who resigned abruptly last year. Patrick Delafontaine was reinstated as the medical school dean Thursday morning. Delafontaine resigned as dean in September, although he continued to teach and conduct research at the school. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1PJ7cu0 ) that…
