ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — St. Louis plans to change residency requirements to allow the next 50 police recruits to live outside the city limits. Mayor Lyda Krewson announced Friday that the Civil Service Commission voted to waive the requirement that police officers live in the city for their first seven years on the job.…
ALORTON, IL (AP) — The mayor of a southern Illinois city has been charged with official misconduct for operating a police vehicle with its lights flashing. Alorton Mayor JoAnn Reed was charged late Friday, a couple of weeks after a driver told Illinois State Police it appeared a civilian female driver was impersonating a police…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Republicans and Democrats are focusing a lot of attention on seven eastern Missouri counties that some say will be pivotal in the U.S. Senate race between Attorney General Josh Hawley and U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. The two parties consider Jefferson County, which is adjacent to St. Louis’ suburbs, as a key…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents on Sunday interviewed one of the three women who have accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct as Republicans and Democrats quarreled over whether the bureau would have enough time and freedom to conduct a thorough investigation before a…
By JOHN O’CONNOR , AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois political campaigns are traditionally rough-and-tumble, transitory affairs dominated by a good-ol’-boy environment that breeds sexual harassment, intimidation, and bullying, a report on women in politics issued last week found. The Illinois Anti-Harassment, Equality and Access Panel’s review of barriers women face to success…
By MARIA DANILOVA , Associated Press . WASHINGTON (AP) — Choking back tears, she testified that he sexually assaulted her. Defensive and angry, he swore that he did not. The dramatic Senate testimony last week by Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh came as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos considers new guidelines that…
By THOMAS GRANING , Associated Press BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Two police officers were shot and killed following an early Saturday morning confrontation in Mississippi, authorities said. Warren Strain of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at a news conference that the officers were called to a house in the city of Brookhaven at…
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has a plan to clean up waste from a century of lead mining in southeast Missouri, but tourism businesses and environmentalists have concerns about it for differing reasons. The Old Lead Belt is centered in St. Francois County, where lead- and zinc-mining operations existed from 1864…
By MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has contacted Deborah Ramirez, who’s accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when he was a Yale student, as part of the bureau’s investigation of the Supreme Court nominee, her attorney said Saturday. Ramirez’s lawyer, John Clune, said agents want to interview her and she…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of nonprofit groups that has registered more than 87,000 new Missouri voters — most of them black residents — says it is not working for Sen. Claire McCaskill, but its effort could help her campaign against Republican challenger Josh Hawley. The nonpartisan coalition called Missouri Black Votes wants…