ST. LOUIS (AP) – A 27-year-old man has died in jail after a struggle with officers who tried to prevent him from killing himself in a holdover cell. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1R9cMZ0 ) that the man who died Tuesday evening had been taken into custody that afternoon for trespassing. Police Chief Sam Dotson…
( KTRS ) Illinois legislative leaders say they made minor progress during a meeting on the state budget stalemate, including agreeing to try again to overhaul state pensions. Gov. Bruce Rauner, GOP leaders Sen. Christine Radogno and Rep. Jim Durkin along with House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton met Tuesday. It was the…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Attorneys for two Missouri death row inmates are suggesting reviving the gas chamber as an alternative method of execution. The inmates, Russell Bucklew and Ernest L. Johnson, argue in court appeals that medical conditions they suffer from would cause painful reactions to the chemicals used in lethal injections. The Kansas…
(KTRS) – Express Scripts unveiled a plan they think can help tiny startups develop the next big idea in health care. The Post-Dispatch reports that the St. Louis-based company will set aside $25 million as part of a multiyear deal with a local venture capital firm. This is unique for the company, the paper says…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – A southeast Missouri man who killed his estranged wife and buried her body on a Mississippi River island has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida to the custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections. Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman David Owen says Waller is imprisoned at the state…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A University of Missouri task force is recommending two options for graduate student employees’ health insurance premiums. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the options are creating a fellowship or increasing stipends. Health insurance became an issue after the university gave graduate assistants 24-hour notice in August that they would no…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) More contamination from Coldwater Creek is being reported. The Army Corps of Engineers has discovered three more residential properties and four commercial properties near the creek with radioactive contamination. This comes on the heels of the corps finding contamination on other residential property near the creek over the summer. Nuclear processing…
Washington, D.C. (KTRS) A congressional committee is scheduled to meet today in Washington to consider the Anheuser-Busch InBev acquisition of SABMiller. AB InBev CEO Carlos Brito and Molson Coors CEO Mark Hunter are expected to testify before the panel. The panel will review how the merger would impact competitors and consumers. The $110 billion deal…
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) – Carbondale police are investigating the weekend deaths of two 18-year-olds who were hit by a car. The pedestrians were identified Monday as Gavin Flynn and Ryan Reed of Carbondale. They were struck about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night on a stretch of Illinois Route 13 that’s also known as East Main…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – A 30-year-old East St. Louis man has been sentenced to six decades in prison for killing another man who identified him as the shooter. Eric Hill was found guilty in October of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Marcus Harris. Prosecutors sought a 55-year sentence and Hill’s defense…