Ferguson, MO ( KTRS ) The Justice Department has reached a tentative agreement with Ferguson, on systemic changes following the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014. City officials announced the proposed deal between the federal government and the Ferguson Police Department Wednesday afternoon. Officials say that before the City Council makes its…
ROLLA, Mo. (AP) – A Danish food-packaging manufacturer says it plans to build a $30-million factory in central Missouri’s Rolla, creating about 50 jobs. As part of the expansion announced Tuesday by Gov. Jay Nixon, Brodrene Hartmann says the 334,000-square-foot Rolla plant will make molded-fiber egg cartons. The cartons will be made of recycled newspaper…
( KTRS ) Gov. Jay Nixon is traveling to South America next week for a trade mission. Nixon says he’s traveling to Colombia and Peru from Saturday through the following Friday. Like previous trade missions, Nixon says the goal is to increase exports and encourage companies from those countries to invest in Missouri. This is Nixon’s first…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner will propose fixing the state’s underfunded pension system and eliminating what he says is wasteful bureaucracy in public schools during his State of the State address. The Republican governor is delivering his second State of the State speech Wednesday with no budget and mounting pressure over the…
BURNS, Ore. (AP) – The leaders of an armed group that’s occupied a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for the past three weeks are under arrest. Militant leader Ammon Bundy and his followers were reportedly heading to a community meeting Tuesday afternoon when they were stopped by FBI agents. Bundy, his brother and three others were…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – An assistant professor at the University of Missouri has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge stemming from a campus run-in with student journalists during protests in November. A spokeswoman for Columbia’s city prosecutor says an attorney for Melissa Click entered the plea on Click’s behalf Tuesday in municipal court.…
(KTRS) The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is proposing rules to regulate bobcat hunting and trapping throughout the state. The agency released its proposals, yesterday, to amend a wildlife hunting law that took effect Jan. 1. Proposed rules include prohibiting bobcat harvesting in the northeastern and east-central regions of Illinois and requiring hunters to purchase…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – U.S. Rep. Jason Smith says a state agency hasn’t been transparent in plans to build a new state park in southeastern Missouri. The Missouri Republican spoke Monday during a state House hearing in favor of bills to require the Department of Natural Resources to sell land in Oregon County purchased…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s request to add almost half a billion dollars more to this year’s budget. Budget officials said Medicaid accounted for about three-quarters of the budget request. Some senators asked how earlier estimates had been short by hundreds of millions of dollars.…
( KTRS ) Republicans in the state Senate continue to criticize the University of Missouri for not firing an assistant professor who confronted journalists during campus protests last November. Melissa Click was charged with misdemeanor assault, on Monday, in connection with her run-in with a student videographer and a student photographer. The confrontation on the…