St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell has charged a North County Man with shooting at officers in their police car. 31-year old Stedmen Duncan of the 31-hundred block of Florissant Road is charged with assault, unlawful use of a weapon and several other related charges. Officers were responding to a shooting…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter says he is facing a federal investigation into his taxes. The disclosure on Wednesday puts a renewed spotlight on the questions about his financial dealings that dogged his father’s campaign. A person familiar with the investigation says federal investigators served a round of subpoenas on Tuesday, including…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general has brought the state into an effort by GOP officials across the nation to reverse President Donald Trump’s election loss. Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday that Missouri has joined more than15 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case filed by…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll find only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccines even as states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about a quarter of U.S. adults…
St. Louis County expects the first shipments of coronavirus vaccine to arrive by the end of this week. County Executive Sam Page says hospital workers will be vaccinated first, later this month. Page expects it to take several months for the vaccine to be distributed widely. A total of 150,000 doses of the vaccine are expected…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has dived back into Capitol Hill’s confusing COVID-19 negotiations, offering a $916 billion package to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that adds a $600 direct payment to most Americans. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the offer to Pelosi late Tuesday afternoon, he said in a statement. He offered few details,…
Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average. That mirrors the frightening peak set last April. And cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record. The crisis is all but certain to get worse from the fallout of Americans traveling…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials have certified this year’s election results showing that President Donald Trump easily won the state’s 10 electoral votes over Democrat Joseph Biden. The State Board of Canvassers said Tuesday that Trump won 56% of the vote to Biden’s 41%, with the remainder going to lesser-known candidates. The board…
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…