SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Federal investigators looking into the theft of artwork – including Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans – at a southwest Missouri museum hope a $25,000 reward stirs up leads. The Springfield News-Leader reports the FBI announced the reward Monday. The FBI says the break-in at the Springfield Art Museum took…
( KTRS ) Missouri could soon pay testing fees for residents taking a high school equivalency test, for the first time, under a proposal that has won initial approval in the state Senate. It needs another vote before going to the House, which passed similar legislation last month. The measure would cover students regardless of…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The state Senate has passed a mid-year spending increase to Missouri’s $26 billion budget. Senators voted 31-0 Tuesday to pass a budget supplement of $466 million in state and federal money, which largely reflects higher health care costs than officials estimated last year. Higher drug prices have been the biggest…
( KTRS ) Police have arrested a man they say shot a 16 yr old girl on April 6th during a drug deal. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued arrest warrants for 19 yr old Eric Mckinney Jr. He faces first degree assault and armed criminal actions charges. Police say that the teen…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois House Democrats advanced a $3.9 billion measure to fund colleges and human services programs while the state operates without a budget. Republicans say the plan headed to the Senate is a hoax and that there’s no money for it. In remarks before the vote Tuesday, House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed…
( KTRS ) The public has a chance to give Missouri lawmakers feedback on a proposed constitutional amendment to protect some businesses that object to same-sex marriage. The Missouri House Emerging Issues Committee is set to hear testimony on the measure after the House breaks for the evening, later today. The hearing is the first…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A federal study recommending that a U.S. spy agency remain in St. Louis rather than move to Illinois contains geographical errors that officials in the losing state hope will bolster their efforts to win the $1.6 billion project. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has preliminarily selected a blighted section of north St.…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri would legalize the growing of industrial hemp as a raw material for manufacturing under a measure advancing in the Legislature. The House on Monday voted 123-29 to pass the legislation and send it to the Senate. The bill would legalize and regulate the cultivation of hemp, which contains very…
( KTRS ) State senators have trimmed about $28 million of Medicaid spending from a mid-year increase to Missouri’s budget. Most of the nearly $500 million supplemental budget would still go to health care for people with low incomes. The adjustment to Missouri’s current $26 billion budget reflects higher health care costs than officials estimated…
CHICAGO (AP) – Rank-and-file Illinois lawmakers frustrated by the 10-month state budget impasse are meeting on their own in bipartisan groups to discuss potential solutions. Some of those legislators spoke Monday in Chicago during a forum on the budget hosted by The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform. State Reps. William Davis, a Homewood Democrat, and…