JOPLIN, MO (AP) — Authorities say a hit-and-run driver struck and killed an 8-year-old girl as she waited to board a school bus in Joplin. The Joplin Globe reports that that the crash happened Thursday morning. Initial reports described the vehicle that struck the girl as a white semi pulling a white trailer. But Joplin Police…
COLUMBIA, MO (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is asking the full Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the case of a death row inmate who claims lethal injection would be unconstitutionally cruel due to his medical condition. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Hawley has requested an en banc review in the…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities say a burned body has been found inside a trash bin in a St. Louis neighborhood. Police say the discovery was made Wednesday in the city’s Baden neighborhood. Homicide and bomb and arson crews responded to the scene. No other details were immediately released, including the name of the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 12:23 p.m. The prosecutor at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing questioning Christine Blasey Ford about her allegation of sexual assault has asked about her fear of flying. Attorney Rachel Mitchell asked Ford about her anxieties. Ford acknowledged Thursday a…
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s civil protection services went on alert Thursday as the country braced for the threat of a cyclone, forest fires prompted evacuations on an island and an earthquake rattled the south of the country. Gale-force winds of up to 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) slammed into Greece from the west,…
As the Senate Judiciary Committee hears testimony from Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh about allegations of sexual assault, AP journalists around the country are talking to Americans about politics, gender, culture and the Supreme Court. Here is some of what they’re hearing: AGONIZING TO WATCH: For Elizabeth Jacobson, listening to Ford’s testimony was emotionally…
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Those who want to get a jump on the November election need not wait. Early voting in Illinois begins Thursday across the state. But voters will have to visit their county clerk’s office or the office of their local election authority to do so. Those who aren’t registered to vote may…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — A former hall monitor at a St. Louis high school has been charged with having sex with a 16-year-old girl at the school and her father’s home. Twenty-four-year-old Devyn Rhodes was charged Tuesday with two counts each of second-degree statutory rape and having sexual contact with a student. Bond is…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 11:17 a.m. Christine Blasey Ford says she is certain she did not mistakenly identify Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as her attacker at a party when they were both in high school more than 30 years ago. Ford was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 10:55 a.m. Senators sat riveted on the dais as Christine Blasey Ford gave her testimony about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who she says sexually assaulted her in the early 1980s. Most of the 21 senators on the panel…