MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri substitute teacher is seeking answers after claiming he was banned because he thanked students for saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Jim Furkin has worked as a sub for about a decade in St. Louis County’s Parkway School District, mostly at Parkway South High School, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported…
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and SUDHIN THANAWALA , Associated Press CHICO, Calif. (AP) — With the confirmed death toll standing at 63 in the Northern California wildfire, authorities on Friday struggled to determine how many of the more than 600 people listed as missing have turned up, or whose remains could still be in the ashes.…
by ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department inadvertently named Julian Assange in a court filing in an unrelated case, suggesting prosecutors have prepared charges against the WikiLeaks founder under seal. Assange’s name appears twice in a recently-unsealed August court filing from a federal prosecutor in Virginia who was attempting to keep sealed a…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the legal challenge to the White House’s decision to strip CNN reporter Jim Acosta of his White House press credentials (all times local): 11:55 a.m. The White House says it will “temporarily reinstate” the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta in response to a judge’s order.…
HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — City leaders in the historic northeast Missouri hometown of Mark Twain have been talking about renovating the area along Twain’s beloved Mississippi River for three decades, and now, that work is about to begin. The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that the city council recently approved a $6.6 million contract for riverfront renovations.…
By MARTHA MENDOZA , Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — There’s a sweet legend about this town: On a blazing summer day in the 1850s, a lumber mill crew with wagon and ox took a break under a grove of tall evergreens. The air was cool, the pine needles fragrant. “Boys,” said the team boss, “this…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — A suspect is being sought after a woman was robbed at gunpoint while clearing snow from her car in north St. Louis. Police say early Thursday morning, a man walked up to the 41-year-old woman in the 3600 block of Fillmore Street pointed a gun, and announced a holdup. He got…
By GARY FINEOUT and BRENDAN FARRINGTON , Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A hand recount began Friday in Florida’s acrimonious U.S. Senate contest after an initial review by ballot-counting machines showed Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson separated by fewer than 13,000 votes out of more than 8 million cast. Under…
(KTRS) St. Louis MO Three separate people and a Family Dollar store were held up by gunpoint in St. Louis during the snow storm Thursday morning. St. Louis Police report that a 16-year-old girl was approached by two men with a gun in the 42 hundred block of Grand overnight. Then around 5 A.M., a…
By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG , Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that it will deport an American citizen it detained one month ago for illegally entering the country. The announcement suggests that North Korea still wants to maintain the mood for dialogue with the United States despite stalled nuclear…