December 2025

IDNR revises South Zone waterfowl season dates for 2026-2030

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has revised the South Zone waterfowl season dates for the 2026-2030 seasons based on input from waterfowl hunters.   Under the revised plan, the South Zone season will start in mid-November, run for 23 days, then have a 12-day break, or “split.” The season will restart in […]

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Illinois joins multistate SAFE Act enforcement action

CHICAGO – A mortgage loan originator (“MLO”) has received serious sanctions and fines from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and 20 additional state financial regulatory agencies that accused him of directing another person to take required education on his behalf and taking the credit for himself.   Under the settlement, Patrick Terrance

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Illinois shifts funds from Medicaid family planning to Planned Parenthood

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) is investing $4 million in Medicaid family planning programming in order to counteract the federal defunding of Planned Parenthood in Trump’s budget bill (HR1), as Illinois continues to serve as a beacon for protecting reproductive healthcare access nationally.    The funding will go towards

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Man arrested/charged with threatening Missouri governor

ST. CHARLES, MO. – On December 16, 2025, the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control (DDCC) was notified of threatening and harassing statements posted online and directed toward Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe and members of his family.   DDCC investigators identified several threatening Facebook posts under a profile name of “Danny

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Memorial Hospital conducts emergency preparedness drill to strengthen readiness

CHESTER – Memorial Hospital successfully conducted a fullscale emergency preparedness drill on December 18, bringing together staff from across the organization, including participants from the Chester Rural Health Clinic, for a comprehensive training scenario designed to enhance readiness for realworld emergencies.     Mock patient being triaged by ER Nurse Manager Kim Ruebke.   The

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Missouri State Highway Patrol inspector honored as State Team Member of the Month for November 2025

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri State Highway Patrol Motor Vehicle Inspector Cory Boatright was honored today after being named Missouri State Team Member of the Month for November 2025 for his decisiveness and leadership in the rescue of a motorists from a burning vehicle.   On July 2, 2025, as Boatright was driving to work, he

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Missouri-specific ‘You Can Quit’ website now available

JEFFERSON CITY, MO — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) continues to support Missourians in their efforts to quit tobacco through a new state-specific cessation information website, www.YouCanQuit.org   Missourians can find cessation information related to the stage of quitting they are in, teen vaping resources, information about incentives for quitting while

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Missouri-specific ‘You Can Quit’ website now available

JEFFERSON CITY, MO — The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) continues to support Missourians in their efforts to quit tobacco through a new state-specific cessation information website, www.YouCanQuit.org   Missourians can find cessation information related to the stage of quitting they are in, teen vaping resources, information about incentives for quitting while

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