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…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A former East St. Louis strip club bouncer charged with killing a customer with his pickup truck has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Reginald Allen of Dupo pleaded guilty Monday to mob action in Anthony Rice’s 2009 death. He faces up to six years in prison. He’s scheduled to be…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A select group of sergeants will be the first St. Louis police officers to try out body cameras. St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson says he expects 90 of the department’s roughly 200 sergeants to try out the body cameras in a pilot program starting Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports…
( KTRS ) A spokesperson for Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office says, a follow-up meeting with legislative leaders on the state budget is slated for Tuesday afternoon in Chicago. The Governer met last week with House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton for the first time in Months. The leaders have not been able…
( KTRS ) A man has been ordered to spend a year and a half in federal prison for a cyberattack that disabled a St. Louis-area police union’s website during unrest related to the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. Justin Payne, 33, was sentenced Monday in St. Louis. That’s where he pleaded guilty in…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The charge of the Ferguson Commission is coming to an end. The 19th and the final meeting of the Commission was held Monday night. The meeting focused on the next steps of implementing the calls to action. The plan calls for the work to continue through the partnership of Focus St. Louis…