COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – Officials in a southwest Illinois community have decided to allow up to 75 residents to keep chickens within city limits. The Collinsville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve an ordinance allowing chickens in residential districts. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that the Collinsville Planning Commission and Mayor John Miller initially…
( KTRS ) A small crowd of protesters is snaking through streets near Chicago’s downtown early Wednesday. The demonstrations started hours earlier after police released a dash-cam video showing the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer. The officer was charged with murder Tuesday. The protesters tried to block traffic on…
( KTRS ) Fifty years after a gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth and months after the woman learned her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights. Attorney Albert Watkins says Melanie Gilmore seeks to invalidate her 1983 adoption and re-establish…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An audio recording has captured a heated phone call between two Republican gubernatorial candidates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1OqBaSp ) reports that former Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens is heard calling St. Louis businessman John Brunner a “weasel,” “coward,” “corrupt” and a liar on the Nov. 14 recording. Brunner spends much…
( KTRS ) An NFL insider say Rams wide receiver, Stedman Bailey, has been shot while in South Florida. NFL’s Ian Rapoport has tweeted that Bailey was shot twice, and is currently in stable condition in a Miami ICU. The Rams released this statement on their website saying: “We are aware Stredman Bailey was involved in an…
( KTRS ) Missouri’s Department of Economic Development says unemployment dropped to 5 percent in October. New data from the agency shows the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased slightly last month, from 5.3 percent in September. The department says that’s the lowest it’s been since April 2007. Seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment went up by about…
BRECKENRIDGE HILLS, Mo. (AP) – Police are investigating whether a man charged in the attack of a Breckenridge Hills man is also connected to a house fire that killed the victim’s brother. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1lf5MMS ) that 53-year-old Brian Westfall was critically injured after being stabbed in his bed early Saturday. The…
( KTRS ) U.S. Steel will temporarily idle its Granite City Works steelmaking and finishing operations, putting about 2,000 workers off the job indefinitely. The steelmaker did not indicate how long the shutdown would last in a two-paragraph announcement Monday afternoon. The company says the shutdown is the result of market conditions including fluctuating oil…
( KTRS ) Sunday night, officers from the North County Precinct responded to a shooting in the 10,000 block of Prince Ave. Upon arrival, they located a male victim, laying in the front yard of a residence suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim, identified as 34 yr old Otis Adams,was pronounced…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says the White House is taking action to answer his questions about Syrian refugees entering the country. The Republican issued a statement Monday saying he spoke Friday with the deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. According to Rauner, the deputy – Alejandro Mayorkas – promised…