LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — Punishing Santa Ana winds that pushed fires into Los Angeles-area neighborhoods, burning six homes, were expected to last through Friday and could prompt more power shutoffs to hundreds of thousands of people. The wind-whipped blazes broke out Thursday in the Santa Clarita area and the largest remained uncontained. As many…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A St. Louis University student in her early 20s is hospitalized in critical condition with what police now call “undetermined injuries” suffered near the central St. Louis campus. University officials have confirmed that the woman who was injured about 9:45 a.m. Thursday is a student. Her name has not been…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An outreach event is planned next week for small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses to participate in the construction of new NGA Western Headquarters. “Small businesses are vital to completing the Next NGA West project and McCarthy HITT is committed to attracting and working alongside a diverse and inclusive workforce for this…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans briefly brought the Democrat-led impeachment investigation to a halt Wednesday when around two dozen GOP House members stormed into a closed-door deposition with a Defense Department official. Democrats said the move compromised national security because some of the Republicans brought electronic devices into a secure room. The protest by Republican lawmakers captured national…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Missouri American Water issues a precautionary boil advisory for approximately 200 customers in Paradise Valley. A water main break in the area and associated drop in water pressure is responsible for the precautionary boil advisory. Customers will need boil their water for at least 3 minutes prior to consumption, until further…
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities moved Wednesday to formally withdraw an unpopular extradition bill that sparked months of chaotic protests that have since morphed into a campaign for greater democratic change. However, the long-expected scrapping of the bill was overshadowed by the drama surrounding the release from a Hong Kong prison of the…
KINGSTON, MO (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor and sheriff will give an update Wednesday into the disappearance of two Wisconsin brothers who have been missing since July and are presumed dead. Caldwell County Maj. Mitch Allen told the Kansas City Star that new charges will be filed against Garland Nelson, the Missouri man already charged with tampering…
(AP) Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset,” mocking President Donald Trump’s dealings with a foreign leader and drawing counterattacks from both. Bernie Sanders, who lost the 2016 nomination to Clinton and is running again…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Two small children died after they were left alone in a St. Louis apartment that caught fire and a woman is in custody while the blaze is investigated, authorities said. A 5-year-old girl died Monday at a hospital, a day after the blaze broke out at the Clinton-Peabody public housing…
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (AP) — A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway. Vulcan Inc.’s director of undersea operations Rob Kraft and Naval History and Heritage Command historian Frank Thompson reviewed…