WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh looked in desperate need of a fighter on his behalf Thursday as he gave impassioned testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying allegations of sexual assault. He found it in Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who told the judge straight out, “You’ve got nothing to apologize for.” Kavanaugh…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Republican Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley says a hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and an accuser against him is a “circus.” Hawley at a campaign event in St. Charles told reporters he had only seen snippets of the Thursday Senate hearing. But he says Democrats have “launched an ambush on…
By AMANDA LEE MYERS and SALLY HO , Associated Press BONNEY LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Every time Chris Gilman leaves her home at the foot of Washington’s Mount Rainier, she fights the gnawing urge to turn around and check that someone isn’t about to shoot her. Sometimes she wins the battle. Sometimes she loses. In…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A new contract from the Air Force will support an estimated 1,800 direct and indirect jobs in the St. Louis region. The contract is for $9.2 billion and calls on Boeing to build the T-X Advanced Pilot Training System, which includes 350 aircraft and ground-based training and support. Leanne Caret, president and CEO,…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some of the illegally dumped nuclear waste buried near a long-smoldering underground fire at a Missouri landfill will be dug up and the rest will be capped under a federal plan announced Thursday. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s remedy comes a decade after its initial…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and ANGELA CHARLTON , Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a “secret atomic warehouse” just outside its capital, despite the 2015 deal with world powers that was meant to keep it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Holding up a poster-board map of…
SEDALIA, MO (AP) — Pettis County authorities say a 37-year-old Sedalia man was arrested after bomb-making materials were found in his home outside Sedalia. The Sedalia Democrat reports Cody Lappat was charged Monday with unlawful possession, transport, manufacture, repair or sale of an illegal weapon. Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond said the investigation didn’t present any…
DETROIT, MI (AP) — From Ford to Walmart to Procter & Gamble, a growing number of iconic American companies are warning that President Donald Trump’s tariffs on U.S. imports are raising their costs and prices. Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford, the second-largest U.S.-based automaker, said Wednesday that Trump’s taxes on imported steel and aluminum will…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Emotionally battling to rescue his Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh fought back Thursday against allegations that he’d sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when both were high school students, telling Congress that allegations by her and others have “totally and permanently destroyed” his family and his reputation. In a loud voice, the conservative…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A man has died after an accident that happened as he reached for his food at a drive-thru window. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 20-year-old Charles Wood Jr. died Wednesday night at a Jack in the Box restaurant in St. Louis. Wood was from Velda City, Missouri, a St. Louis…