RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s office put much of the business of governing on hold Tuesday as the Democrat privately weighed whether he can stay in the job despite the uproar over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page. While Northam himself gave no public indication of which way…
The St. Louis police officer accused of killing a female colleague while playing a variation of Russian roulette wants a new judge. The attorney for Nathaniel Hendren filed a motion Monday. Defense attorney Talmage Newton IV says in the filing that Circuit Judge David Roither’s comments at a hearing last week suggested bias against his client. Among…
Tuesday was the second day of the trial of 20-year old Trenton Forster, who is accused of killing St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder. The prosecution presented physical evidence to bolster its case against Forster, including an AK-47 found in his vehicle. The St. Louis County Coroner and a crime scene detective took the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The visitation is today for a former Navy Seal from St. Louis who was killed in Syria. Scott Wirtz was one of four Americans killed in a suicide bombing last month. The visitation will be held from noon until 8 p.m. at Ortmann Funeral Home in Creve Coeur. An additional visitation will…
Paris (AP) A police document shows the suspect in a Paris apartment building fire that killed 10 people was detained after she allegedly tried to torch a car nearby. The police document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday states officers responding to a trash can fire early Tuesday spotted the woman with her hand…
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pope Francis ministered on Tuesday to the thriving Catholic community in the United Arab Emirates as he concluded his historic visit to the Arabian Peninsula with the first-ever papal Mass here and a call for his flock to remain meek in following God. A day after making a…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted in any major U.S. sport, is scheduled to speak at the University of New Mexico. The former University of Missouri football standout is slated to address student on Feb. 12, in Albuquerque. Sam is expected to tell students how to use…
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Five people died and two others were injured after a small plane apparently came apart, raining debris across a Southern California neighborhood and igniting a house fire before landing in a backyard, authorities said Sunday. The male pilot, who was the only person in the twin-engine plane, and four people…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) The trial will get underway Monday morning for the man accused of killing St. Louis County Police Officer Blake Snyder. Twenty-year-old Trenton Forster is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the 33-year-old officer. Snyder was shot while responding to a disturbance call at a Green Park residence in…
ATLANTA, GA (AP) — Graying but still gritty, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots came to the Super Bowl intending to stave off, for at least one more game, the inevitable onslaught of the NFL’s future. Job well done. Pro football never looked flatter, older and more stuck in the days of the VCR…