By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday hired a veteran attorney who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment process as the White House shifted to a more aggressive approach to the Russia investigation, which has reached a critical stage. The White House announced the hiring…
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Isabelo Rivera, adjutant general of the Puerto Rico National Guard, says the cargo plane that crashed in Georgia was more than 60 years old and was making its final flight into retirement in Arizona. He says the C-130 plane had been used in the past to rescue U.S. citizens stranded in…
By DAVID A. LIEB, SUMMER BALLENTINE and BLAKE NELSON , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former campaign aide to Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens testified that he was duped into taking the fall when the governor’s campaign was trying to explain how it had gotten a list of top donors to a veterans’…
JEFFERSON CITY (KTRS) A bipartisan report from a Missouri legislative committee concludes Governor Eric Greitens lied about the use of a nonprofit donors list for his 2016 campaign. The report says Greitens signed an agreement in 2012 he would not disclose information from a donors list for the veterans charity he founded called The Mission Continues.…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis Police say the suspect in Sunday night’s fatal shooting at Balpark Village – Scotty Joseph Lee – has turned himself in. On Twitter Wednesday morning, police confirmed he turned himself in to the homicide division at police headquarters downtown. A warrant charging him with first-degree murder, assault and two armed criminal…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has sent troops to Arizona to assist with border security. Four soldiers in Missouri’s National Guard and a UH-72 Lakota helicopter deployed Tuesday, according to a statement from Gov. Eric Greitens. The statement says the soldiers will provide aerial surveillance, and will not directly participate in law enforcement. In…
By CLAIRE GALOFARO , AP National Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — He felt like an invisible force was drawing him into the parking lot, past the four new white crosses in the driveway, the balloons and the flowers, and the letters addressed to the dead. He felt it pulling him into his regular spot, the…