SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AP) – A newspaper report says proposed plans to move a federal spy agency’s regional headquarters from St. Louis to Illinois’ Scott Air Force Base have been around for over a decade. Southwestern Illinois and Missouri are competing to house the project. The Belleville News Democrat reports 2005 minutes from…
( KTRS ) Missouri lawmakers are set to question officials in Governor Jay Nixon’s administration on how the state spends money to help refugees. The Legislature set the hearing for today, in response to deadly attacks in Paris and criticism of Nixon’s decision not to join other governors who are trying to block resettlement of…
NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) – It’s been more than 15 months since Michael Brown became a household name after a white police officer shot and killed the black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. But Brown’s fame stands in stark contrast to the relative obscurity of his gravesite. The final resting place of the…
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (AP) – Fort Leonard Wood has dished out more than 5 tons of turkey for the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The south-central Missouri installation said in a news release that it celebrated the holiday with a traditional meal served in 10 on-post dining facilities. Besides the turkey, the fort served 1,000 pounds…
MARION, Ill. (AP) – The body of a missing 22-year-old Murphysboro woman has been found by hunters in a southern Illinois national wildlife refuge. The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office says that Jeannie Schuur’s body was found Thursday on land in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. Family members reported her missing on Monday after she…
CHICAGO (AP) – Protests over the videotaped fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer are set to move to the heart of the city’s famed retail district on the busiest shopping day of the year. A protest march down part of Michigan Avenue called the Magnificent Mile is planned for…
( KTRS ) Arrests for drunken boating on Missouri waterways have fallen by 63 percent since the Missouri State Water Patrol merged with the Highway Patrol. State records show that arrests for boating while intoxicated fell from 352 in 2010, the last year before the merger, to 131 in 2014. So far this year, the…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri hunters are killing more deer after restrictions were lifted in some areas to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease. The Columbia Missourian (http://bit.ly/1NeRPtj ) reports that nearly 190,000 deer were killed during the first phase of the Missouri firearms season, which ended Tuesday. Missouri officials say that’s up 14.1…
( KTRS ) Thousands turned out in St. Louis for the return of the annual Thanksgiving Day parade. The parade was cancelled last year amid protests and widespread arrests over Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson and other fatal police shootings. The 2014 parade was scheduled several days after a St. Louis County grand jury decided…
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – The Martin Luther King Bridge connecting East St. Louis to St. Louis is set to reopen after being closed for construction. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the bridge crossing the Mississippi River is scheduled to reopen to traffic the week of Dec. 21. The bridge has been closed since…