( KTRS ) More than 6,000 East St. Louis students are returning to school after a one-month teachers’ strike. District officials and union negotiators struck a tentative deal Friday after a 13-hour bargaining session that lasted until 1:30 a.m. The four-year contract was quickly endorsed by a majority of the roughly 400 striking teachers as…
FREEBURG, Ill. (AP) – A southwestern Illinois school district that paid $5.6 million to settle four lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of students by a former superintendent says its insurers are denying coverage for a fifth complaint. The Freeburg district in St. Clair County settled complaints by former elementary students who claimed abuse by Robin Hawkins,…
TROY, Mo. (AP) – A Lincoln County man formerly convicted of murder in his wife’s 2011 stabbing death will be back in court for a retrial Monday. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1l2YlZk ) that Russell Faria will appear in a bench trial in which St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer alone will decide…
DECATUR, Ill. (AP) – Caterpillar Inc. has started laying off Decatur workers. Company spokeswoman Rachel Potts confirmed the employee notifications to The (Decatur) Herald & Review (http://bit.ly/1MAvd7T ), but says the company won’t be releasing the total number by location. In September, the Peoria-based manufacturer announced that it’s planning another round of job cuts that…
( KTRS ) For many people in Illinois, the five-month budget impasse has meant little. But for residents in the low-income counties in far southern Illinois it’s a far different story. In the area tucked between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, private industry is scarce. Residents rely on government for everything from health care to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis city police officer is suing the department and three supervisors, claiming he was sexually harassed and retaliated against after he complained. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1MxCzsU ) reports that Kyle Brewer’s lawsuit names a police captain and two sergeants. The lawsuit says that Brewer was subjected to harassment…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It was a tale of two cities, Missouri edition: While homicides in St. Louis rose dramatically in 2014, killings in Kansas City declined sharply, a turnaround so startling that St. Louis leaders looked to their western counterparts for advice. But Kansas City killings have risen again. Both of Missouri’s big…
NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Police say an autopsy done on an 18-year-old who exchanged fire with an officer had one gunshot wound under his chin. Sergeant Brian Schellman with the department said in a news release that the county medical examiner’s office did the autopsy on Amonderez Green on Friday. The autopsy…
St. James, MO (KTRS) Another search and rescue effort is planned for a missing rural Missouri boy. The national advocacy group “Justice In Name Of” is organizing the effort for Johnathan Shay. The 13-year-old St. James boy who suffers from autism has been missing since July 9th. This is the second search the organization has…
