Columbia, MO (KTRS) Two graduate student organizations at the University of Missouri are calling for walkouts in solidarity with protesters who want the system president to resign. The Steering Committee of the Forum on Graduate Rights and the Coalition of Graduate Workers called Sunday for the actions. The organizations say walkouts by student workers on…
( KTRS ) Missouri football players announced on Twitter over the weekend that they will not participate in team activities until the university president resigns, a move designed to join forces with a black graduate student who is holding a hunger strike. Jonathan Butler has not eaten since last Monday to protest the university’s handling…
( KTRS ) The St. Charles Police Department is investigating a drive-by shooting that happened Sunday night around 8pm in the 1600 block of Timberlane, near First Capitol Drive. A police spokesperson said several shots were fired at the home, while a child was home alone. Police say the shots were fired from gold or silver…
GALATIA, Ill. (AP) – One of two mines in a southern Illinois community is expected to cease operations by the middle of next year. The Carbondale Southern Illinoisan reports Friday that it’s the American Coal Company’s New Era Mine that’ll close as it reaches the end of its reserves. The other mine in Galatia, New…
( KTRS ) A Mother has been accused of repeatedly poisoning her 9-year-old son for almost a year. Prosecutors in St. Louis County have charged 35-year-old Rachel Kinsella of Meadville with endangering the welfare of a child. Court documents allege investigators found that Kinsella surreptitiously was having her son treated at two hospitals, getting unspecified prescriptions…
TROY, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man once sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife is free after being found not guilty in a retrial. Russell Faria was found not guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and armed criminal action Friday by Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer, of St. Louis, who heard the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri football players announced on Twitter that they will not participate in team activities until the university president resigns, a move designed to join forces with a black graduate student who is holding a hunger strike. The statement from the athletes of color on the University of Missouri football team was…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe met with a graduate student who is staging a hunger strike at the Columbia campus. Wolfe met with Jonathan Butler and representatives of several student organizations Friday to discuss racism and other problems currently disrupting the university’s Columbia campus. Wolfe called Butler an important voice…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tensions between some GOP lawmakers and Missouri’s Democratic governor over spending limits have continued despite new legislative budget powers. Frustrations again came to a head this week when Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Flanigan wrote to Governor Jay Nixon criticizing him for blocking about $46 million in spending. The…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Gov. Bruce Rauner has cut back on institutional care available to seniors. The Republican used an amendatory veto Friday to reduce the cost of the measure aimed at protecting people who get institutional or at-home care while officials develop a new way of measuring need. Chicago Democratic Rep. Greg Harris sponsored…