CHICAGO (AP) – A struggling Illinois health insurance co-op is suing the federal government, claiming it’s being shortchanged of $72.8 million in promised payments under the Affordable Care Act. Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. At least four other insurers previously filed…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A measure has been introduced in the Illinois Legislature that would allow Illinois State Police to notify the FBI if someone on a terrorist watch list applies for a firearm ownership card. The Daily Herald reports that the proposed measure would also add people involved in terrorist threats to the list…
( KTRS ) Mayor Francis Slay will sign Board Bill 40, or the ‘Good Samaritan Law’ into City code, later this morning. The law aims to prevent drug overdose deaths by protecting witnesses or bystanders who call 911. While the law provides immunity to the caller from being prosecuted for using drugs, it remains tough…
LONDON (AP) – Britain has voted to leave the European Union to take greater control of its economy and its borders, shattering the stability of the continental unity forged after World War II. The decision launches what will be years of negotiations over trade, business and political links with the EU, which will shrink to…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Legislature plans to reconvene next week as the state approaches a second year without a budget. Senate President John Cullerton told members Thursday they should return to Springfield on Wednesday. The House also is expected to be in session. Lawmakers have been working on a stopgap budget to fund schools…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on House Democrats’ protest demanding a vote on gun control legislation. The House has adjourned until after July 4 after majority Republicans pushed through a partisan bill to deal with the Zika outbreak. Republicans moved to adjourn immediately after the Zika vote to shut down a round-the-clock sit-in by Democrats…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Veteran journalist Ellen Soeteber, the former editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has died after a brief illness. The Kassly Mortuary in Fairview Heights, Illinois, confirms that Soeteber died on Tuesday. She was 66. Soeteber spent 20 years at the Chicago Tribune before becoming managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Michigan man who allegedly tried to collect fake debts from Gov. Jay Nixon has been charged with a felony for alleged deceptive business practices. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster on Wednesday said StarProse Corporation CEO Jeffrey Scott Kowalski tried to get tax information and collect non-existent debts from the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation to require high school students to pass a civics test and learn CPR. The legislation signed Wednesday requires high schoolers who start ninth grade after July 2017 to pass an exam similar to the U.S. citizenship test. The measure also creates a pilot program…
( KTRS ) The City of St. Louis has begun removing thousands of trees affected, or at risk, from the Emerald Ash Borer Beatle. The shiny green bug is responsible for destroying hundreds of thousands of Ash trees and recently has been discovered in the City of St. Louis. The City’s Forestry Division has been…