WATERLOO, Ill. (AP) – Authorities are investigating the death of a St. Louis man who was found unconscious in a jail cell in Illinois. The 39-year-old man was found in a Monroe County Jail cell around 9:30 a.m. Monday. He was transported to a St. Louis County hospital, where he died. Monroe County authorities hadn’t…
CHICAGO (AP) – Aldermen have pressed top Chicago authorities about the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald ahead of a meeting with U.S. Department of Justice officials. A hearing of the human relations and public safety committees stretched into late Tuesday. It was called amid fallout of the release of a video showing white officer…
( KTRS ) Missouri’s unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest point since 2006. The state Department of Economic Development reports that Missouri’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in November. That’s down from October and is the lowest mark since April 2006. Missouri’s seasonally adjusted employment rose by 2,200 jobs from October to November.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – New data from the U.S. Department of Education show that 86 percent of Illinois students graduate from high school. That’s the 20th-highest graduation rate in the country. The department said Tuesday that the 82.3 percent national graduation rate for the 2013-14 school year was the highest recorded since it started using…
( KTRS ) A backlash has begun over how the University of Missouri handled recent turmoil on its Columbia campus. A newly proposed bill that could punish the university, would also revoke scholarships of student athletes who strike. The measure is in response to the Mizzou football team supporting the protests. Legislative leaders say funding for the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A University of Missouri student is accused of a campus threat posted on social media. The university says the 18-year-old student was arrested Monday and later released on $4,500 bond. Formal charges had not been filed by midday Tuesday. The student is accused of making a threat on the social media…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – An Illinois woman serving a life sentence for the deaths of her two baby daughters is asking Gov. Bruce Rauner for clemency. Paula Sims’ attorney Jed Stone has argued that the former Alton woman suffered from postpartum psychosis at the time the two babies died, one in 1986 and 1989. Madison…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – An Illinois State Board of Elections official says he’ll accept written arguments later this week in the case of three southern Illinois judges who plan to retire in name only to avoid retention elections that require 60 percent approval rather than a simple majority. The Belleville News-Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/1P45McI ) hearing…
