WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Animal control officials are trying to determine who abandoned more than a dozen dogs and puppies in Warrensburg. Sarah Patton, the director of the Warrensburg Animal Shelter, says 16 dogs were found alive and one had died, after possibly being hit by a train. They were discovered this week near baseball…
AUGUSTA, MO (KTRS) Scary moments for the two occupants of a single engine plane that made an emergency landing in Augusta, Missouri, Friday afternoon. St. Charles County Police say they responded to the area of Public Street and Highway 94 about one o-clock today for reports of a down aircraft. The plane with its two occupants…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters have flooded Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office with calls expressing concern about his decision to give some voter registration information to a national commission investigating alleged voter fraud. The office received “literally hundreds of calls” this week,” spokeswoman Maura Browning said Thursday. Many callers were concerned that the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Officials with Missouri’s secretary of state’s office say there’s a lot of interest in Secretary Jay Ashcroft’s decision to give some voter registration information to the President’s voter fraud commission. Ashcroft’s spokeswoman, Maura Browning says his office received “literally hundreds of calls” about the issue this week. Ashcroft says he thinks there’s a…
O’Fallon, MO (KTRS) A St. Charles County man is accused of sexually assaulting two young girls. Twenty-year-old Rayshawn Antoine of O’Fallon is charged on several counts, including first-degree statutory rape. Prosecutors allege that Antoine attacked a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl at the O’Fallon Lakes Apartment Complex in recent days. The O’Fallon Police…
Festus, MO (KTRS) Police in Festus say that for the second time within days a razor blade has been found hidden in the handlebar of a shopping cart at a Walmart store. This week’s discovery of the blade stuck on the bottom side of a cart handle follows a similar case on Sunday, when a…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Several voter rights advocacy groups say the state of Missouri is not following federal requirements on providing voter registrations. The League of Women Voters of Missouri and four other groups sent a letter Thursday to Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and to Joel Waters, director of the state Department…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House voted Thursday to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s vetoes of a budget package, giving the state its first spending blueprint in more than two years and ending the nation’s longest fiscal stalemate since at least the Great Depression. Lawmakers have been meeting in a special session called to deal…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (KTRS) Emergency workers wearing protective gear have entered Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office inside the Illinois Capitol after a report of hazardous material that’s prompted authorities to block anyone from entering or exiting the building. The investigation has delayed Thursday’s critical override vote on a package of bills that could end the state’s budget impasse. Springfield…