DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The latest on developments in the Persian Gulf region and elsewhere in the Mideast amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran (all times local): 2:30 a.m. The U.S. military command that oversees the Mideast has confirmed an explosion outside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad and says there…
Chicago, IL (KTRS) The Illinois Department of Central Management Services says that its Suburban North Regional Office Building will be closed Monday due to a power outage. CMS says the following departments will be shut down as a result: Revenue, Natural Resources, Human Services, Financial & Professional Regulation, Agriculture, and Emergency Management – along with…
By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For all of President Donald Trump’s talk of winning, his lawyers are using a legal argument that many scholars say is a pretty sure loser as his team tries to defy congressional attempts to investigate him. Yet they may end up delaying the…
St. Louis MO (KTRS) Police in Maryland Heights are trying to figure out how a man died following the Dave Matthews concert earlier this week. Police say forty-four-year-old Jason Smith of Jefferson City, Missouri, was taken to the hospital with two head injuries after being found on a concrete walkway inside the amphitheater. 13KRCG reports…
Missouri’s Republican-led House has passed a sweeping bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy on lawmakers’ final day in session Friday, joining Alabama and several other states that have moved recently to severely restrict the procedure. The ban is among the most restrictive in the U.S. It includes exceptions for medical emergencies, but…
BEIRUT (AP) — In the event of war with the United States, Iran “will not be alone.” That message was delivered by the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group to a mass rally in Beirut in February marking the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. “If America launches war on Iran, it will not be…
Springfield, IL (KTRS) A giant sculpture of Abraham Lincoln is coming to Springfield, Illinois. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the City of Springfield are hosting an exhibition featuring Artist Seward Johnson’s “Return Visit.” The work is described as an enlarged version of Johnson’s original work of art commissioned for Gettysburg Plaza in Pennsylvania. will…
Metro-East drivers coming into Missouri on Interstate-255 will have an easier time of it. The Missouri Department of Transportation says two of the westbound lanes on the Jefferson Barracks Bridge will reopen in time for Friday morning’s rush hour. MODOT closed the westbound bridge after an inspection discovered cracks in bridge’s steel. Repairs will take…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has now passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. Senators approved the legislation 24-10 early Thursday with just hours left before a Friday deadline to pass bills. It needs at least one more vote of approval in the…
MONTGOMERY, AL (AP) — Alabama’s Republican governor signed the most stringent abortion legislation in the nation Wednesday, making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases. “To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a…