COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri task force has returned to Columbia after spending over a week aiding local agencies with flood response efforts in the southwest part of the state. The State Emergency Management Agency deployed the 25-member Missouri Task Force 1 for a search and rescue operation to West Plains on April 28.…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A week after being closed due to the flooding, Highway 141 at I-44 has reopened. The Missouri Department of Transportation originally planned to reopen that interchange before rush hour tomorrow morning but crews have been able to clear away water and debris this afternoon. Crews have reopened the ramp from westbound I-44 and…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Several St. Louis-area Texas Roadhouse restaurants are reaching out to help the families of the Laclede Gas workers who slain last month in north St. Louis. Texas Roadhouse restaurants on both sides of the river will donate ten percent of its proceeds to The Laclede Gas Workers Memorial Fund today to…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois is again at the center of a national movement involving the Equal Rights Amendment, 35 years after the state failed to ratify it. Evolving legal theories have led to a resurgence of the proposed constitutional amendment and claims that it’s still viable. An Illinois Senate committee approved it this month.…
