Melbourne, Australia — Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state reported a record 484 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday and health authorities warned that numbers could continue to rise. With Australia’s second-largest city Melbourne now in lockdown for two weeks, authorities had hoped the infection rate would begin to plateau. Instead, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton says “we’re…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing coronavirus vaccines and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies worldwide. The indictment says the hackers in recent months researched vulnerabilities in the computer networks of Massachusetts and Maryland companies known…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump believes St. Louis’ top prosecutor committed an “egregious abuse of power” in charging a couple who displayed guns during a protest outside their mansion. That’s according to White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who spoke Tuesday morning on the Fox News program Fox & Friends. McEnany was discussing…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Missouri has been added to the list of over 30 states whose residents must now quarantine for 14 days when arriving in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as dozens of states face rising positive COVID-19 rates. Gov. Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Tuesday that the quarantine is “imperfect” but said the quarantine…
St. Louis, MO (AP) — St. Louis’ top prosecutor has charged a husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns during a racial injustice protest outside their mansion. Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner announced the charges Monday against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are white. Both are personal injury attorneys and…
Hong Kong (AP) — Supporters of Hong Kong’s protest movement are adapting their methods since China imposed a feared national security law on the city. To make their voices heard without violating the law, protesters are amending their slogans and protest songs, and even holding up blank pieces of paper to express opposition to the…
Beijing, China (AP) — China’s latest coronavirus outbreak has spread to a second city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. One of the 17 new cases was in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, while the others were in the regional capital. Urumqi is where all other cases have been reported since the outbreak…
Florissant, MO (KTRS) Police need your help identifying a suspect in last month’s shooting at a restaurant in North County. The incident occurred back on June 27th at the Waffle House located in the 300 block of North Highway 67. That’s where Florissant Police found a security guard suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. The officers…
CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan “must resign” if allegations of corruption are true against the fellow Democrat long considered the state’s most powerful lawmaker. The U.S. Attorney’s office says electric utility ComEd has agreed to pay $200 million to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a long-running bribery…
FREDERICKTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The former deputy collector for a rural eastern Missouri county has been sentenced to five years of probation. Kelcey Gresham, of Fredericktown, was sentenced after pleading guilty Thursday to a felony stealing charge. State Auditor Nicole Galloway said that Gresham also paid $5,409.72 in restitution under the terms of the plea.…