JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An independent political action committee that supports Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has been fined $2,000 for violating a campaign finance law. The Missouri Ethics Commission in a consent order this week found Uniting Missouri accepted a $150,000 donation from a federal Republican Attorneys General Association PAC in October 2020. The…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery has testified that the 25-year-old Black man did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at him. On his second day of testimony Thursday, Travis McMichael said he was “under the impression”…
NEW YORK (AP) — Two men who for decades steadfastly maintained their innocence in the 1965 assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X will be exonerated. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office is expected to join attorneys for the two men on Thursday in asking a judge to toss out the convictions. Malcolm X…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis are searching for a suspect or suspects after finding a 27-year-old woman shot to death in the city’s Vandeventer neighborhood. Police say the shooting happened Tuesday afternoon, when officers were called to the area just before 4 p.m. Arriving officers found the woman dead from a gunshot…