The top local news with Michael Calhoun and the KMOX news team.

Stories include: Steel workers in Granite City are hoping for the best. Expansion of I-70 moves ahead. Illinois' governor explains his veto of building new nuclear power plants. New life for a senior property tax freeze? More locations of Fields Foods unexpectedly close.

Plus, a small town Kansas police department raids the office of the local newspaper, and now it's national news with freedom of speech in dispute.