By MORGAN LEE , Associated Press TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A state judge on Monday cleared the way for five defendants who were arrested on child abuse charges at a remote New Mexico compound to be released pending trial despite authorities’ suspicions that the group was training children to use firearms for an anti-government mission.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating a triple shooting in north St. Louis that left one man dead. Authorities say the three victims were gunned down at just late Monday night in the 4400 block of Penrose. Two of the victims suffered non-life threatening injuries. The third died at the scene. The deceased victim’s…
By GENE JOHNSON , Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The spectacular theft of a 76-seat plane from the Seattle airport by a ground crew employee is prompting an industrywide review of how to thwart such insider security threats, though it remains unclear what steps airlines might take. “This is too big a deal. It’s not…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new audit found that Ferguson, Missouri, has made significant progress in addressing problems in its municipal court, which drew scrutiny for its treatment of poor and minority people after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. Democratic Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway’s report…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill says she supports measures on Missouri’s November ballot to increase the state’s minimum wage and hike the gas tax. McCaskill recently told reporters that she also supports medical marijuana. She said she “couldn’t be more enthusiastic” about another proposal that would change redistricting and limit lobbyist…
By BEN FINLEY , Associated Press The son of a powerful Republican congressman lambasted his father on Twitter on Monday for “ruining” the career of a recently fired FBI agent who had sent anti-Trump text messages during the Russia investigation. The son of U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte also began soliciting campaign donations on Sunday for…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A 10-week-old Missouri girl has died after being left inside a hot vehicle. The Southeast Missourian reports that siblings found the infant Saturday afternoon inside a vehicle at Parkwood Lake Estates trailer park in Cape Girardeau, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of St. Louis. She was pronounced dead at…
By JILL COLVIN , Associated Press BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Former presidential adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman is drawing fire from President Donald Trump’s allies and national security experts for secret recordings she made at the White House, including her firing by chief of staff John Kelly in the high-security Situation Room. Manigault Newman said Sunday…
By ASHRAF KHALIL, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and SARAH RANKIN , Associated Press ` WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people wanting to send a message that racism is unwelcome in the United States gathered in a park outside the White House to protest a white nationalist rally on the anniversary of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman and a child are dead after drowning over the weekend in a deadly stretch of the Meramec River. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that 35-year-old Rose Shaw and 12-year-old Deniya Johnson, both of Florissant, drowned Saturday afternoon in the Meramec River in Castlewood State Park. Their bodies were recovered…