St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police have identified a patient who was fatally shot by security guards at Barnes-Jewish Hospital earlier this week. The patient was 46-year-old Andrew Merryman of Ballwin. Police say they believe he was suicidal when he pulled the knives from his pocket Thursday morning at the hospital’s Center of Advanced Medicine. According to…
By AUDREY McAVOY and JENNIFER KELLEHER HONOLULU (AP) — A false alarm that warned of a ballistic missile headed for Hawaii sent the islands into a panic Saturday, with people abandoning cars in a highway and preparing to flee their homes until officials said the cellphone alert was a mistake. In a conciliatory news conference…
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — With Russia in mind, the Trump administration is aiming to develop new nuclear firepower that it says will make it easier to deter threats to European allies. The plan, not yet approved by President Donald Trump, is intended to make nuclear conflict less likely. Critics argue…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis civil rights icon Frankie Muse Freeman has died. Adolphus Pruitt, head of the St. Louis NAACP, said Freeman’s family confirmed her death Friday. Freeman served as the lead counsel in the landmark 1954 case Davis et al. v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, which ended legal racial discrimination in…