NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright has won the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually by Major League Baseball for community involvement and philanthropy. Wainwright’s Big League Impact foundation and recording artist Garth Brooks’ Teammates for Kids Foundation teamed for a Home Plate Project with Texas pitcher Kyle Gibson, and raised…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man is dead after being shot during a carjacking at a St. Louis gas station. Police say the crime happened just after 2 a.m. Monday at a Phillips 66 station in north St. Louis. Officers found the victim, who was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The victim’s name…
CHICAGO (AP) — As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons. The Bureau of Prisons has in recent weeks announced plans for five executions starting Thursday. The flurry would conclude just days before the presidential inauguration of death penalty…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities said a St. Louis police officer shot and killed a burglary suspect after the man lunged at him while holding a screwdriver. Police Chief John Hayden said the shooting happened Sunday morning while officers were searching a building in the 4400 block of Gravois in south St. Louis. Hayden said…
WASHINGTON (AP) — More people around President Donald Trump keep coming down with COVID-19. Now he says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. Giuliani was exhibiting some symptoms and was admitted on Sunday to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not…