SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate has adjourned without taking action on House-approved legislation to break the nation’s longest budget standoff since the Great Depression. The Legislature plans to return Tuesday at 10 a.m. Chicago Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan has scheduled a meeting of the four legislative leaders for the same time. Republicans were no-shows…
ELLISVILLE, MO (KTRS) A reward of up to $1,000 is offered for information about an armed robbery at a Quik Trip store last month. Police say the robber walked into the store at 15992 Manchester Rd. on Sunday, 6-16-17 at 1:55 AM. The subject is a white male with a thin build, 5’8″or 5’9″. Photos show…
ST. LOUIS (AP) Top Republican recruit U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri says she’s not running for Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s seat in 2018. Wagner said in a statement Monday that she’s instead running for re-election to her 2nd District House seat in suburban St. Louis. Wagner’s announcement suddenly opens up a Senate race Republicans had hoped to…
Perryville, MO (KTRS) An investigation is underway after a medical helicopter crashed in southeastern Missouri over the weekend. Authorities say a St. Louis Children’s Hospital helicopter was transporting a 5-year-old patient when it crashed Saturday night near Perryville. The child and at least three crew members sustained non-life threatening injuries. Sheriff Gary Schaff says the helicopter…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Illinois lawmakers are back to work after a dramatic vote in the House Sunday to increase income taxes by 32 percent. Attention turns to the Senate Monday as the budget measures the House endorsed move to that chamber for approval. The tax legislation increases the personal income tax rate from 3.75…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois House has begun debating a $5 billion income tax increase to help end a two-year budget stalemate. Democratic Rep. Greg Harris of Chicago is the sponsor of the measure presented Sunday. The plan would increase the personal income tax rate by 32 percent. It would go from 3.75 percent…
CHICAGO (AP) — A website that hosted an “Abduction 101” forum linked to a 28-year-old suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois bills itself as the most popular sexual fetish networking site on the internet — and it has faced pressure in recent months to be clearer about not…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The speaker of the Illinois House on Saturday scheduled a key vote on a multibillion-dollar revenue package that would finance an end to the longest state budget crisis since at least the Great Depression, ending a day that turned acrimonious at times. Democratic Speaker Michael Madigan of Chicago issued a statement…
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The widow of a man who wounded a congressman and four others in a shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice said she is tormented by thoughts that she could have done more to help her increasingly angry husband. Suzanne Hodgkinson said her husband James was once a fun-loving man who…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says negotiations on a budget deal are ongoing, but that no votes will be taken over the weekend. The Chicago Democrat appeared briefly on the House floor Saturday to say legislative leaders would meet again. The state is starting its third straight fiscal year without a budget. Republicans…