COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Sen. Josh Hawley has been subpoenaed to answer questions about his handling of Missouri’s open records law while he was the state’s attorney general. The Cole County Circuit Court issued the subpoena Monday as part of a lawsuit against Gov. Mike Parson’s office. St. Louis attorney Elad Gross, a Democratic candidate…
NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a tunnel. Guzman listened to…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County grand jury has returned a 17-count indictment against a man suspected of killing a woman and sexually assaulting two others inside a suburban St. Louis religious supply store. The indictment filed Wednesday mirrors charges prosecutors filed in November against Thomas Bruce…
By JONATHAN J. COOPER , Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who became a prominent gun-control advocate after his wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he will run to finish John McCain’s last term in the U.S. Senate. Kelly, 54, is a top…
EL PASO, TX (AP) — President Donald Trump charged ahead with his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, skimming over the details of lawmakers’ tentative deal that would give him far less than he’s been demanding and declaring he’s “setting the stage” to deliver on his signature campaign promise. In the first…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Stray Rescue is holding a press conference Tuesday after a dog found freezing in the cold on Friday was euthanized on Monday. Faust, the 6-year-old dog named for the letter carrier who found her, was taken to Stray Rescue in a coma with a temperature too low to read, then transferred…