TRENTON, NJ (AP) — Another young person has died in a viral outbreak at a pediatric rehabilitation center this month, bringing the death toll to seven, officials said Wednesday as they disclosed the first symptoms of the illness showed up a month ago. Most of those who died in the adenovirus outbreak were under 18,…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Officials with U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner’s campaign say a political mailer criticizing her on immigration issues is illegal.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the mailer has circulated to St. Louis County residents in the final weeks before the Nov. 6 election. Wagner, a Republican, is facing a challenge from Democrat Cort…
Vinita Park, MO (KTRS) An apparent domestic argument is believed to what led to a double homicide in Vinita Park. That’s according to investigators with the Major Case Squad who say 45-year-old Vernon Stewart Jr. fatally shot 35-year-old Tashonda Nesbitt, who lived with him at the home. A third person then fatally shot Stewart. Police say…
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and LISA MARIE PANE , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators examining the explosive devices sent to high-profile targets in Washington and New York this week will be working to glean forensic clues to help identify who sent them, from fingerprints and DNA evidence to tracking the origin of the packages and…
WICHITA, KS (AP) — A Kansas man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the horrific abuse and slaying of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found encased in concrete in the laundry room of his home four months after his death. Stephen Bodine, 41, of Wichita, was convicted Wednesday in the May 2017…
CARBONDALE, IL (AP) — Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Chancellor Carlo Montemagno was remembered as a passionate educator during a campus memorial service nearly two weeks after his death. Montemagno became the Carbondale campus leader in August 2017 and revealed in June that he was undergoing aggressive treatment for cancer. SUI interim President Kevin Dorsey said during…
CLAYTON, MO (AP) — New sample ballots for the Nov. 6 election will be sent out to 12 percent of St. Louis County voters after they received the wrong sample ballots in the mail due to a print vendor’s mistake. Election officials said Wednesday that the mistake does not affect any real ballots, including absentee…
WASHINGTON (AP) — NYPD’s chief of counterterrorism says the explosive device sent to CNN’s headquarters in New York appeared to be sent by the same person who mailed pipe bombs to George Soros, Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. John Miller and FBI officials said a news conference the devices all appeared to be…
SPANISH LAKE, MO (AP) — Horses near an elementary school in northeast Missouri caused a brief shutdown at the school after deciding to go on a short romp. Six or seven of horses from the Division Cavalry Brigade barn in north St. Louis County wandered the campus of Larimore Elementary School Tuesday, causing officials to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is echoing his vice president’s condemnation of explosives sent to the homes of Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Trump retweeted a message from Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday, adding “I agree wholeheartedly!” In his tweet, Pence condemned “attempted attacks against fmr Pres Obama, the Clintons, @CNN &…