MARION, Ill. (AP) – The body of a missing 22-year-old Murphysboro woman has been found by hunters in a southern Illinois national wildlife refuge. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office says that Jeannie Schuur’s body was found Thursday on land in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. Family members reported her missing on Monday after she…
CHICAGO (AP) – Protests over the videotaped fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer are set to move to the heart of the city’s famed retail district on the busiest shopping day of the year. A protest march down part of Michigan Avenue called the Magnificent Mile is planned for…
( KTRS ) Arrests for drunken boating on Missouri waterways have fallen by 63 percent since the Missouri State Water Patrol merged with the Highway Patrol. State records show that arrests for boating while intoxicated fell from 352 in 2010, the last year before the merger, to 131 in 2014. So far this year, the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri hunters are killing more deer after restrictions were lifted in some areas to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease. The Columbia Missourian (http://bit.ly/1NeRPtj ) reports that nearly 190,000 deer were killed during the first phase of the Missouri firearms season, which ended Tuesday. Missouri officials say that’s up 14.1…
( KTRS ) Thousands turned out in St. Louis for the return of the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. The parade was cancelled last year amid protests and widespread arrests over Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson and other fatal police shootings. The 2014 parade was scheduled several days after a St. Louis County grand jury decided…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner says his moratorium attempting to block Syrian refugees from resettling in Illinois is simply a request for the Obama administration to “take a deep breath” and tighten the review process to make sure Washington shares necessary information with the states. Refugee-resettlement groups say Rauner has no authority to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A long-awaited extension of Grant’s Trail near St. Louis is moving ahead, with the promise of what will become a continuous 17-mile route for bicyclists, walkers and runners. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that adding two new miles to the trail, linking it to the River Des Peres Greenway, will cost…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A suburban St. Louis woman whose son suffocated after authorities say she drunkenly took him to bed with her is accused of misdemeanor child endangerment. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 30-year-old Connie Lynn Novak of Overland is charged in connection with the August death of 10-week-old Jayce Novak. Authorities say the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Some University of Missouri students are expressing frustration with the campus chancellor after a Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic stopped performing abortions. Mizzou for Planned Parenthood organizer Dina van der Zalm says a Wednesday meeting with interim Chancellor Hank Foley to talk about how the school could help the clinic was…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri Alumni Association is responding to requests and forming a Black Alumni Network. The announcement follows the recent resignation of University System President Tim Wolfe after weeks of student protests over the racial climate on campus. Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin also resigned. Chelsea Drake Marks, a 2012…