SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Amtrak and the Illinois Department of Transportation say they have reached an agreement to maintain existing service on state-supported routes while reducing costs. The deal announced Friday will maintain service through the end of the fiscal year on June 30 at a cost of $38.3 million to the state. The department…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker has dropped a restraining order he had obtained against a colleague with whom he says he got into a fistfight. Representative Courtney Allen Curtis confirmed Friday that he had dropped the action against Rep. Michael Butler. Curtis says Butler swung at him outside a union reception over…
The attorney general’s office argued that cities aren’t required to have a police department because they can contract services from other law enforcement agencies
(KTRS) – Plenty of questions after 40 elementary school students were taken to the hospital after complaints about an odor of natural gas. The fire department says that around 350 students from the Ames Visual and Performing Arts Elementary were evacuated. The students said they felt sick. Laclede Gas was called to the scene, but…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Several University of Missouri students are pressing the system’s governing board for faster reforms in diversity as the Columbia campus continues grappling with racial unrest punctuated by racial protests there last November. Black graduate student Timothy Love was among four students at the Columbia school who addressed the university’s curators during…
St. Louid, MO (KTRS) Major League Soccer in St. Louis looks promising. MLS Commissioner Don Garber told the “St. Louis Post Dispatch” that the league will begin searching for a stadium site in St. Louis and planning for its financing and operations immediately. Garber also said he would begin looking for potential owners. Garber however…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A business partner of Stan Kroenke wants tax dollars for a Maryland Heights development project. The “St. Louis Post Dispatch” reports that Alan Bornstein is looking to develop 1800 acres along the Missouri River next to Creve Coeur Lake Park into a retail, entertainment, office, residential and sports district. The Maryland…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Two dozen black protesters twice interrupted a meeting of the University of Missouri system’s governing board to read a list of demands for improvements in diversity. The demonstrators on Thursday stood side-by-side, their arms locked, outside a room on the Columbia campus when the Board of Curators were starting a finance…
Mount Vernon, IL (KTRS) A Mount Vernon math teacher faces felony charges after police in southern Illinois say he used an anonymous social media app to arrange a sexual encounter with an eighth-grader. Kevin Battas, 25, was charged Wednesday in Madison County with grooming and indecent solicitation of a child using the Internet. Troy police say…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Democratic governor is pledging to circumvent the Republican-led Legislature if needed to fill vacancies on the board overseeing the state’s flagship university. Gov. Jay Nixon’s announcement Thursday further escalated the tensions of legislators already frustrated about the handling of racial issues that culminated in the resignations of the system president…