CHICAGO (AP) – A statewide coalition plans to launch a social media campaign to press Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration to expand the medical marijuana pilot program to more patients. The Cannabis Patient Advocacy Coalition says its campaign will include short video testimonials from Illinois residents. It kicks off Monday with an Iraq War veteran…
( KTRS ) Authorities say an officer fatally shot a suspect in an armed robbery at a KFC in south St. Louis. Police Lt. Col. Lawrence O’Toole says a citizen flagged down an officer in a marked car Sunday evening and reported the robbery at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. O’Toole says the officer went…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers agree the state needs more money for roadwork and bridge repair, but they don’t agree on how to pay for it. A Senate committee could vote this week on a small increase to Missouri’s fuel tax, which Governor Jay Nixon has endorsed. It’s not clear how much support…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster maintains a fundraising lead for Missouri governor, though some Republicans are cutting into his cash advantage. Reports filed Friday with the Missouri Ethics Commission show Koster raised $1.3 million this past quarter and had nearly $5.8 million in his campaign account to start 2016. Republican…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man is accused of abducting a 12-year-old girl off the street as she was walking to school. Police told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that 48-year-old John Billingsley is a stranger to the child. He is charged with child kidnapping and jailed on $100,000 bond. The girl was walking…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Former Missouri congressman Russ Carnahan has created a committee to run for lieutenant governor. Carnahan filed paperwork Friday with the Missouri Ethics Commission setting up a Democratic campaign committee. He served eight years in the U.S. House before losing a 2012 primary to Democratic Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. after…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The owner of a southwest Missouri discount tobacco store has filed a lawsuit challenging a proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the state’s lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax and create new fees for wholesalers of some cigarettes. The suit filed Friday in Cole County Circuit Court claims the measure’s ballot title and…
Nixon believes lawmakers will support the proposal. He will present his full budget before Wednesday’s State of the State address