( KTRS ) Prosecutors have charged a third man with posting online threats to attack a college campus. 19 yr old Tyler Bradenberg, of St. Louis, was charged Thursday with a felony count of making a terrorist threat. Authorities say Brandenberg posted “I’m gonna shoot up this school” on the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak…
(KTRS ) Illinois Lottery ticket sales have plummeted since lottery officials announced delaying payouts over $600 because of the state budget impasse. Numbers show that gross sales for instant and Powerball tickets in October were the lowest yet in 2015. last month the Illinois lottery announced that anyone winning over $600 wouldn’t get their money…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The family of a man killed in a truck crash in southern Illinois is suing a county coroner’s office that it says failed to recover all of the victim’s body parts from the accident scene. Jared McPherson of Bethalto and another man were killed in August when their truck left Interstate…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Soldiers Memorial in St. Louis is now officially in the hands of the Missouri Historical Society, which plans a $30 million renovation of the downtown St. Louis landmark. Mayor Francis Slay used Veteran’s Day on Wednesday as an opportunity to formally sign over control of Soldiers Memorial. The complex was built…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – Book donations are flowing to the only public library in cash-strapped East St. Louis after a monthlong teachers’ strike highlighted its lack of resources. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/1WScSmp ) reports that area librarians and have organized collection drives that will add thousands of titles to the library’s bookshelves. The…
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. (AP) – After the Mississippi River flooded four years ago, more than 100 Illinois families agreed to sell their homes to the government for demolition so they could move to higher ground. With the paperwork finally coming together last spring on a partial state match for the buyouts of 111 properties, many…
( KTRS ) The University of Missouri system’s governing board met for three hours in closed session Wednesday night, but ended with no announcement. The Board of Curators held an emergency session yesterday evening amid racial tensions on the Columbia campus. The tensions have fueled protests that led to the resignation of Missouri President Tim Wolfe and…
( KTRS ) The cities of Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis made their pitches, yesterday, to save their teams from moving to Los Angeles. Officials from those cities spoke to a number of the league’s committees about preventing the potential relocation of their teams, Gov. Jay Nixon and his stadium task force presented their…
