By TERRY SPENCER and GARY FINEOUT , Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s election recount drama is intensifying as lawyers return to court and tallying machines break down ahead of a Thursday deadline to complete reviews of the senate and governor races. Much of the trouble centers on the Democratic stronghold of Palm Beach…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The first major winter storm of the season is expected in the St. Louis area. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for much of the metro-east, while much of the St. Louis area is under a winter weather advisory. This storm could bring 4 to 8 inches of…
OAKLAND, CA (AP) — Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette’s life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his blade carving roads and sites for wooden…
(AP) Stan Lee was a seminal part of Miya Crummell’s childhood. As a young, black girl and self-professed pop culture geek, she saw Lee was ahead of his time. “At the time, he wrote ‘Black Panther’ when segregation was still heavy,” said the 27-year-old New Yorker who is a graphic designer and independent comic book…
University City, MO (KTRS) More woes for the Delmar Loop Trolley after a second vehicle is struck in the past 30 days. During a test run Tuesday, a trolley car hit the side mirror of a truck parked on Delmar near The Pageant. This comes after a Loop Trolley contractor vehicle was hit just over…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The Missouri Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing St. Louis woman. According to police, 23-year-old Raffaella Maria Stroik was last seen Monday at the Whole Foods in Town and Country. Her vehicle later found by a park ranger at Mark Twain Lake State Park in…
FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — A north St. Louis county hotel employee has been charged with sneaking into two sleeping women’s rooms and videoing himself sexually assaulting them on his cellphone. Thirty-six-year-old Michael Brady, of St. Louis, is jailed on $75,000 bond after he was charged last week with burglary, invasion of privacy and two counts…
By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is weighing an administration-wide shakeup as he looks to prepare his White House for divided government, with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen expected to be among the next to go, perhaps as soon as this week. Trump has…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Gov. Mike Parson has named state Treasurer Eric Schmitt to replace Senator-elect Josh Hawley as Missouri’s attorney general. Parson appointed the 43-year-old Republican on Tuesday. The attorney general’s seat will be open once Hawley joins the U.S. Senate in January. Hawley unseated Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill in last week’s election. Voters…
MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — Anheuser-Busch says the famed Budweiser Clydesdales will no longer train in New Hampshire. The brewing company says the horse training facility at the Merrimack brewery is being relocated to a state-of-the-art breeding facility near Boonville, Missouri. Anheuser-Busch Corporate Communications Director Samantha Roth says that the move will allow the training team…