Search continues for missing Missouri woman
TROY, Mo. (AP) – Crews continued searching for a Missouri woman after her husband was found shot to death of an apparent suicide. Lincoln County Sheriff’s Lt. Andy Binder also says a recording device belonging to Sussette Benhardt has led investigators “to conclude that she is a victim of assault by” her husband. The St. Louis…
Click appeals denial of Missouri unemployment benefits
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri is fighting a former assistant professor’s effort to collect unemployment benefits after she was fired for conduct during campus protests. Melissa Click, an assistant professor, was fired in February after a videotaped confrontation of her calling for “some muscle” to remove a student videographer from a protest…
Fentanyl worries changing way narcotics officers operate
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The street version of fentanyl blamed in the deaths of thousands of Americans is also threatening police officers, forcing changes in long-standing basics of drug investigations, from confiscations to testing to undercover operations. Overdose deaths have surged as drugs such as heroin, cocaine and counterfeit prescription pills are often laced with…