GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over the weekend, Gaza’s Hamas rulers marked a year of bloody, weekly protests that have failed to break the Israeli blockade. Rocket attacks brought a wave of Israeli airstrikes and unprecedented protests broke out against the Islamic militants’ increasingly unpopular rule. And yet Hamas’ control over Gaza is tighter…
BEIJING, CHINA (AP) — China said Monday it would begin regulating all fentanyl-related drugs as a class of controlled substances, in a change U.S. officials had long advocated as a way to stem the flow of lethal opioids from China. The sweeping change in the way China regulates drugs that mimic fentanyl takes effect May…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police need your help locating a wheelchair accessible van that was stolen from an apartment in Manchester. The $60,000 van, described as a silver 2016 MV-1 bearing Missouri license number DM4-P7W, went missing just before 5 A.M. Sunday from the 300 block of Autumn Creek Way. Owner 39-year-old Paul Bracher is…
Police report on Monday that Charles Stewart has been found safe. Earlier Story: Florissant, MO (KTRS) The Florissant Police Department is asking for your help in locating a missing elderly man. The Missouri Highway Patrol has issued a Endangered Silver Advisory Alert for 72-year-old Charles Stewart, who went missing from 3970 Meadowland Drive in Florissant…
‘By BEN NADLER Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Watchful eyes now turn to Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, wondering when he might sign a “heartbeat” abortion ban that he supported and helped push through. The Georgia House gave final approval Friday to legislation outlawing abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, sending the bill…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — One of the last Army Rangers involved in the D-Day Invasion at Normandy has died. Relatives say Charles Ryan died Sunday in his St. Louis home. He was 96. The cause wasn’t disclosed. Ryan was a standout youth athlete who qualified for the 1940 Winter Olympics in speed skating. Those Olympics…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Sunset Hills Police Sergeant Robbie Hagen says a man’s deceased body was discovered inside a car around 7 o’clock Friday night, off Gravois near Highway 270. Foul play is not suspected in the man’s death. An autopsy will be performed by the St. Louis County Medical Examiners Office. (Photo Credit/ KTVI…
MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation will be sent to Congress by mid-April and will not be shared with the White House beforehand, Attorney General William Barr said. Barr’s timeline, included in a letter to the chairmen of…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson was in St. Louis on Friday to speak on the “Opportunity Zones” program. Dr. Carson joined federal, state, and local lawmakers, as well as residents at the HUD-supported Sarah North Apartments, for a roundtable discussion. “All of our people are…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller’s full report after learning the special counsel’s findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of total exonerationbased on a four-page summary by his attorney general. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler was told by Attorney General…