WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would “certainly prefer not” to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and that he may delay a highly anticipated meeting with the Justice Department’s No. 2 official. Trump said Rosenstein denied making remarks first attributed to him in a New York Times report, including that…
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — A man who was deported six times and is now suspected in a string of killings and beatings that targeted sleeping homeless people in Southern California was charged Wednesday with murder, attempted murder robbery, authorities said. Authorities say suspect Ramon Alberto Escobar has a long criminal record in the U.S.…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A victims’ support group is putting pressure on Missouri’s governor to intervene in a state investigation of potential clergy abuse, but Gov. Mike Parson’s office says he doesn’t have the authority to act at this point. Missouri leaders of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests in a Wednesday…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The plan to bring Major League Soccer to St. Louis is being revived. According to a story first reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, an official in Governor Mike Parson’s office said that officials with the state Department of Economic Development met with Major League Soccer representatives as recently as Tuesday,…
By MEG KINNARD and JEFFREY COLLINS , Associated Press BUCKSPORT, S.C. (AP) — The last community in the way of Hurricane Florence’s floodwaters as they slowly flow to the sea got some good news Wednesday — the predictions aren’t as dire as they once were. And it appears the Waccamaw River won’t top a lake…
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER , AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled its confidence Wednesday in the U.S. economy by raising a key interest rate for a third time this year, forecasting another rate hike before year’s end and predicting that it will continue to tighten credit into 2020 to manage growth and…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Taking center stage at the United Nations, President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of trying to interfere in the upcoming U.S. congressional elections because it opposes his tough trade policies. The White House provided scant evidence of anything akin to the level of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.…
NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press. Flu experts knew…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (AP) — A man who served nearly 20 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned will speak next month when a documentary about the case is screened at Southeast Missouri State University. The Southeast Missourian reports that “The Past is Never Dead” tells the story of David Robinson, who was sentenced…
JACKSONVILLE, IL (AP) — Illinois State Police are investigating a video posted online claiming to show a sexual encounter between two Illinois School for the Deaf students at the institution. Master Sgt. Mike Link tells The (Springfield) State Journal-Register that the incident reportedly happened in April. The School for the Deaf is part of state government. It…