JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri House committee is considering a bill that calls for a private company to scrutinize whether welfare recipients are qualified to receive benefits. Bill sponsor Rep. Marsha Haefner told a committee Monday that her proposal would reduce paperwork for Department of Social Services employees. She says it could prevent money…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri quarterback Maty Mauk has been suspended indefinitely. Athletic director Mack Rhodes and coach Barry Odom announced the punishment on Monday night after a brief video was posted to Twitter. It shows a person appearing to snort a white, powder-like substance and the accompanying tweet mentions Mauk by name, but there…
(KTRS) More than 80 Missouri inmates sentenced to life in prison as teenagers have a chance at freedom following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The high court ruled Monday that its 2012 ruling banning mandatory life without parole sentences for juvenile murderers applies to those previously convicted. The ruling says inmates must be given a chance…
( KTRS ) Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to reduce the number of inmates in Illinois’ overcrowded prison system over the next decade. It’s one of few areas where he’s willing to devote money at a time when he’s urging lawmakers to be prudent with spending. Rauner’s first year in office has been defined by a…
(KTRS/Fox 2) St. Louis police are investigating the city’s 8th homicide after a weekend of violence. Fox 2 news reports the Sunday afternoon homicide took place on the city’s north side. Around 5pm officers were called to the area near Enright and Clarendon to a report of two males victims of a shooting. Upon arrival,…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – Agriculture officials say it’s too soon to know if recent flooding in southeast Missouri damaged the area’s winter wheat crop. Anthony Ohmes, agronomy specialist at the University of Missouri Extension, told The Southeast Missourian (http://bit.ly/1PteKny ) that wheat crops can handle being submerged when it’s cold. But he says the…
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) – The death of a 70-year-old man in University City marks the third time since 2013 that a victim has been fatally stabbed inside a home in the St. Louis suburb. Police are investigating to determine if there is a connection. August Lombardo was killed inside his two-family home. A co-worker…
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – The St. Louis area’s first medical marijuana dispensary is slated to open in the city’s Illinois suburbs. HCI Alternatives in Collinsville plans a grand opening at noon Monday at a retail location adjacent to the Illinois State Police’s regional headquarters. A second St. Louis-area dispensary in the village of Sauget near…
The slide on Wall Street could damage public employee pension funds around the country. And the burden could end up falling on taxpayers. Stocks have been tumbling in the first weeks of 2016, with the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 down nearly 9 percent since the start of the year. If there’s…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Relatives of a man fatally shot by an off-duty St. Louis police officer have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1ZPVm97 ) reports the suit was filed Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court on behalf of the parents of VonDerrit Myers Jr. and the mother of his child.…