JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens’ attorneys say ordering the governor and his staff to stop using an app that erases text messages would violate free speech rights. The Kansas City Star has reported that Greitens and some of his staff use a Confide app that deletes text messages and prevents them from…
EDWARDSVILLE, IL (KTRS) Edwardsville Police say they found “Mabel,” the mannequin which had been reported stolen from the Edwardsville Robert Stille Township Park, during the A-7 Corsair aircraft renovation this past summer. Police received a tip Jan. 24 of her whereabouts. A subsequent investigation was conducted and led to the location of “Mabel” at an Edwardsville…
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — Another wave of victims confronted Larry Nassar on Wednesday, this time about sexual abuse at an elite Michigan gymnastics club where young athletes felt they had to use the disgraced doctor’s services and could not question the adults who ran the facility. The judge presiding over the…
By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town on Wednesday. No lawmakers or aides were reported injured, but the White House said one person was killed and another…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A comprehensive audit will be conducted on the City of St. Louis. State Auditor Nicole Galloway made that announcement during a press conference.in downtown St. Louis on Wednesday. “My audit will be a thorough and independent review of how taxpayer dollars are managed and will hold government accountable to taxpayers,” Galloway…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police now know the identity of the man whose burned remains were found in a north St. Louis trash bin. Dental records were used to identified the victim as 29-year-old Breyon Jamaul Robinson of Spanish Lake. He was reported missing Saturday, one day after his remains were found in a near Fairground…
St. Ann, MO (KTRS) A man is in custody after an overnight police standoff in north county. Police say officers responded to a call about a man barricaded in a car in a parking lot of a Shop ’n Save on St. Charles Rock Road in St. Ann late Tuesday night. He was armed with a…
By KEN RITTER and ANITA SNOW, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Arizona man named in court documents as a “person of interest” during the investigation of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history said he had met the shooter one time and sold ammunition to him. Douglas Haig told The Associated Press on…
By JULIE PACE and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a “new American moment” of unity in his first State of the Union, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and warning darkly of evil forces…