SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says negotiations on a budget deal are ongoing, but that no votes will be taken over the weekend. The Chicago Democrat appeared briefly on the House floor Saturday to say legislative leaders would meet again. The state is starting its third straight fiscal year without a budget. Republicans…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has signed legislation to make it tougher to prove workplace and housing discrimination in court. Greitens signed the measure late Friday. The legislation has been blasted by Democrats and groups such as the state NAACP. The Missouri NAACP last week cited the measure in issuing an advisory…
Champaign, IL Â (AP) Â A man was charged Friday with kidnapping a visiting University of Illinois scholar from China who authorities believe to be dead after she disappeared three weeks ago. A federal criminal complaint alleges the suspect’s phone was used to visit an online forum in April called “Abduction 101.” Yingying Zhang, the 26-year-old daughter…
Public feedback is being sought in finding a new police chief in the city of St. Louis.
(St. Louis)–KTRS The St. Louis-area child who was killed on an Alabama beach when he was hit by debris as Tropical Storm Cindy churned the Gulf of Mexico has been identified. Authorities say the 10-year-old victim was Nolan McCabe. The boy was on vacation with his family when he was killed Wednesday morning on a…
Investigators say the off-duty St. Louis police officer who was shot Wednesday night was hit in friendly fire.
St. Louis, MO Â (KTRS) Â A driver for a ridesharing company is hospitalized after being shot in south St. Louis overnight. Police say the victim was discovered inside of a car in the 3700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue at just after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. The victim is listed in critical condition. There’s no word on a…
Struggling veterans getting the tools for help
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is asking that bond be revoked for a county sheriff who was temporarily removed from office after an inmate died from injuries suffered in an altercation at the jail. Hawley said that he wants former Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson either jailed or barred from…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has struck down portions of a law that imposed special requirements on Ferguson and other cities and police in St. Louis County following unrest after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The court ruled Tuesday that the 2015 law was unconstitutional because the state…