CARBONDALE, IL (AP) — Democrat Brendan Kelly listened as the people crowded inside a Southern Illinois University conference room talked about how trouble at the Carbondale campus has brought trouble for the whole region. Decreasing enrollment means jobs aren’t filled when employees quit or retire. A local furniture store that used to sell a truckload…
St. Louis Police report two people have been killed in a multi-vehicle accident near downtown St. Louis. It happened about 9-30 in the 94-hundred block of Riverview Drive and involved a roadside service truck and an SUV. Two adults were pronounced dead at the scene. Six juveniles and one additional adult were taken to an…
(KTRS) ST. LOUIS A man is fatally shot during an altercation with North County Police. Authorities say they were called to Ruesta Drive in Spanish Lake for a disturbance Thursday evening. Officers arrived and noticed a man inside a car with a gun on the seat. A struggle occurred over police trying to get the gun.…
WELLSTON, MO (AP) — A man has been charged with robbing a suburban St. Louis bank with a note scrawled on the back of a losing lottery ticket. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 42-year-old Joseph Thomas, of St. Louis was charged Wednesday with stealing or attempting to steal from a Regions Bank in Wellston, which…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Nearly 200 St. Louis business owners are calling for voters to approve Proposition B, the ballot initiative to raise Missouri’s minimum wage. On Thursday morning, a group of business owners joined state and local lawmakers during a press conference at Bridge Bread in south St. Louis to show their support. Those…
EMINENCE, MO (AP) — The Missouri Department of Conservation is asking the public for any information about who shot and killed an elk calf in Shannon County. The calf was born in July in Shannon County and was fitted with a radio collar. It was found shot in the head near a road a few…
KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) — Republican Josh Hawley’s Senate campaign will donate a $2,500 contribution from a political action committee accused of scamming donors by claiming to support police officers. Campaign spokeswoman Kelli Ford said the money from the Police Action Fund will be contributed to the Missouri Sheriffs’ Association and the Missouri Police Chiefs…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — The University of Missouri College of Education has received a total of $22.4 million in grants, which will support rural education in Kansas and Missouri, and help schoolchildren develop social skills. The university announced Wednesday it received an $18.6 million from two federal grants, which will be matched by $3.8 million…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Illinois Bicentennial organizers and the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs have named 200 military veterans to honor during the state’s 200th birthday. Stuart Layne is executive director of the Bicentennial Commission. He says the “Bicentennial HONOR 200” recognition “is one of the most important commemorations” of the yearlong celebration. He says that…
A senior citizen was shot in the face by a stray-bullet while on his couch. St. Louis Police say the 65-year-old man was laying on his couch in the 34 hundred block of Virginia when the bullet came through his window around 10 p.m. and hit him in the cheek. The man is in stable…