SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A new college entrance exam is coming to Illinois. The test known as the SAT is replacing the ACT. The Illinois State Board of Education announced Thursday it will begin negotiating a contract with the College Board, which administers the SAT. The announcement comes after a protest filed by ACT was…
( KTRS ) As temperatures continue to drop drastically overnight, the Winter Outreach program will continue operations for the next 3 evenings. Maggie Crane, spokeswoman for Mayor Slay’s office, says referrals for winter shelter should be made through the Housing Resource Center hotline at 314 802-5444 or United Way by 211. Crane says “Increased outreach…
MASCOUTAH, Ill. (AP) – Members of Illinois’ congressional delegation are appealing to the head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in support of Scott Air Force Base’s bid to host its new facility. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk and other Illinois congressmen wrote a letter to NGA Director Robert Cardillo this week, urging him…
HILLSBORO, Ill. (AP) – Some central Illinois residents are asking state regulators to reject a proposed expansion of a coal mine where an underground fire has smoldered for nearly a year. Opponents of Foresight Energy’s planned Deer Run Mine expansion testified at a Thursday public hearing in Hillsboro that the company’s inability to quell the…
( KTRS ) The O’Fallon, MO. Police Department is looking for a suspect who viciously attacked a teen and left him needing surgery. Police say the male victim, in his early teens, was assaulted in the Pin Oak Mobile Home Park around 6 pm Thursday night. The victim is currently at an area hospital and…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Legislation requiring a private company to review Missouri’s welfare rolls is moving forward in the Legislature. On Thursday the House passed a bill 129-27, and the Senate in a voice vote gave initial approval to its version of the proposal. The measures would require the state to hire a company…
(KTRS) – The coroner who performed the autopsy on 3-year-old Titus Tackett says the boy died from hypothermia. The examiner also noted that Titus had no bruises or signs of child abuse. The preliminary report states that the examiner does not see any reason why anyone would be charged with homicide at this point. Titus…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are considering several measures to combat what they call a heroin epidemic. The House voted 154-2 Thursday to allow pharmacists to sell naloxone, which temporarily counteracts the effects of opiates and is used to treat overdoses. The bill now heads to the Senate. Republican Rep. Holly Rehder has…
Ironton, MO (KTRS) An autopsy will be performed on Thursday on a three-year-old boy who went missing from his grandfather’s home in southeast Missouri. Investigators say the body of Titus Tackett was found late Wednesday morning in a minivan, about a mile from his grandfather’s home in Ironton. A search was launched after family members…
St. Charles County, MO (KTRS) The Missouri Department of Transportation is facing legal action following a traffic accident near Wentzville that claimed the lives of a mother and her two children last month. Relatives of the victims, 36-year-old Jacqueline Faudi and her 6-year-old and 7-month-old daughters, filed a wrongful death suit against MODOT this week.…