BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The son of a former mayor of the southern Illinois city of Alorton has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for a 2009 double homicide. A St. Clair County jury delivered the verdict Thursday against Randy McCallum Jr., and was quickly escorted out the courtroom afterward. McCallum’s father,…
CHICAGO (AP) – Officials say more than 1 million Illinois residents have health insurance through programs launched by President Barack Obama’s health care law. The number includes more than 388,000 Illinoisans who signed up during the recent marketplace enrollment period and more than 626,000 covered under the Medicaid expansion. It’s the first time the figure…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A judge has issued a restraining order blocking a former lobbyist accused of sexually harassing interns and employees from coming within 1,000 feet of the Missouri Capitol. A Cole County judge granted the restraining order Thursday against David Poger. Calls to Poger were not immediately returned. He was registered as…
(KTRS) – The University of Missouri Board of Curators voted to fire Assistant Professor Melissa Click. The vote came Wednesday night, months after a video of Click calling for muscle to remove a student journalist from students protests on campus. The Board released a statement today saying that pressure from Missouri lawmakers had no influence on…
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Hillsboro, MO (KTRS) – A Jefferson County man is accused of repeatedly stabbing a man who got in front of him at a convenience store’s soda fountain machine. Thirty-two-year-old Bennie Hornbeck of Hillsboro has been charged with felony first-degree assault. Investigators say Hornbeck was at a convenience store near De Soto on Tuesday when he became…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Heroin related deaths are increasing at an alarming rate in St. Louis County. That’s according to a report released by the St. Louis County Department of Health, which detailed drug-poisoning deaths in St. Louis County from 2010 through 2014. In 2012, there were 78 heroin deaths in the county. That…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Fantasy sports sites are in favor of an Illinois House plan to regulate contested online sports betting. Boston-based DraftKings and New York-based FanDuel are expected to announce their support of a proposal sponsored by Democratic Rep. Mike Zalewski at the Capitol on Thursday. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan issued an opinion…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A Collinsville City Council member is resisting calls from colleagues to step down over her personal use of a municipal credit card while working as the southwestern Illinois city’s clerk. The Belleville News-Democrat (bit.ly/1Ld9Id1 ) reports that two council members called for Cheryl Brombolich to resign her elected position Monday night.…
( KTRS ) Authorities are looking for a victims vehicle in hopes of finding his killer. Schron Jackson, with the St. Louis police department, reports that police responded to the 4000 block of Bowen, around 3pm Monday afternoon, to a call for an unconscious male. Upon arrival, officers found 51 yr old Ricardo Comparini unconscious…