COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri has formed a new office to centralize reports and investigations of discrimination complaints. The university announced Wednesday that the new Office for Civil Rights and Title IX will reduce the number of offices involved in handling discrimination complaints. Ellen Eardley, assistant vice provost and Title IX administrator,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is pushing for changes to state court rules in an effort to halt what he calls abusive debt-collection actions that often target minorities and the poor. Koster says he has asked the Missouri Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness to change court rules, forcing…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A federal agency has announced that it plans to study radiological contamination at a north St. Louis County creek that some residents are concerned may be linked to several cases of cancer. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry plans to gather information on contamination…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A former southern Illinois judge serving a two-year prison sentence for heroin possession and a weapons charge has been assigned to a St. Louis halfway house as his release date nears. Michael Cook was presiding judge for St. Clair County’s drug court. He was arrested in May 2013, two months after…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are searching for a suspect accused of shooting at officers who were investigating a crime scene in north St. Louis. Authorities say this happened around 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the 5100 block of Labadie Avenue when shots rang out from a gangway. No officers were injured. The crime scene…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A federal agency plans to study radiological contamination at a north St. Louis County creek that some residents are concerned may be linked cancer. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry plans to gather information on contamination at Coldwater Creek for the next 18 to 24 months. The agency…
( KTRS ) Authorities are investigating after a thief, trying to rob a Gordmans, was able to escape police. Tuesday afternoon around 2:30pm, officers from the Fenton Precinct responded to a call for a larceny in progress at Gordmans, in Gravois Bluffs. A suspect in the store was thought to be concealing numerous bottles of…
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AP) – Scott Air Force Base is boosting its cyber security efforts amid ongoing efforts to lure a federal spy agency’s new regional headquarters to southwestern Illinois. The 835th Cyberspace Operations Squadron and the 837th Cyberspace Squadron were activated at a Tuesday ceremony. The Belleville News-Democrat (bit.ly/1Q0Tbds ) reports the…
( KTRS ) Five Missouri school districts have received an accreditation boost. The state has decided that Caruthersville, Gilliam, Jennings, Malta Bend and Spickard districts are now fully accredited. They previously were provisionally accredited, meaning they faced extra monitoring. The Missouri State Board of Education voted to make the change during a meeting Tuesday. The…
