WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi (all times local): 8:05 a.m. The German government says it has halted previously approved arms exports to Saudi Arabia amid the fallout from the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Germany said a month ago it wouldn’t approve any new weapons exports to…
By YURI KAGEYAMA , AP Business Writer YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nissan Motor Co.’s high-flying chairman Carlos Ghosn was arrested Monday and will be dismissed after he allegedly under-reported his income and engaged in other misconduct, the company said Monday. The Japanese automaker’s CEO Hiroto Saikawa confirmed that Ghosn was arrested after being questioned by prosecutors…
PARADISE, CA (AP) — Brad Weldon lost his home to fire when he was a kid, so when a deadly wildland blaze came roaring toward his ranch house in the pines where he lives with his 89-year-old blind mother, he wasn’t going to let disaster strike twice. Weldon and his mother’s caregiver, armed only with…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Corporate Executives are raising awareness for youth homelessness by sleeping outside in the cold. On any given night in St. Louis, over 3,000 children wonder where they will sleep and ultimately seek refuge in abandoned buildings, cold corners, and in physically and mentally unsafe situations because they have no…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) On the very first day of Saint Louis University’s third century, SLU has announced that it is embarking on the largest and most ambitious fundraising campaign in its 200-year history. The Campaign for Saint Louis University called “Accelerating Excellence” is seeking to propel SLU to national prominence as a world-class research…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Federal Reserve says farm income continued to decline across the Plains and western states this fall because crop prices remain weak. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, says more than half the bankers in the region say that farm income is lower than last year because the ongoing…
By GARY FINEOUT , Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida political icon who first arrived on Capitol Hill in the decades when Democrats dominated this presidential battleground state, conceded his bitterly close re-election bid to Republican Rick Scott on Sunday after a bruising recount left Nelson thousands of votes short…
ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — Officials in northeastern Missouri have confirmed the shooting death of a man in a hunting accident. Authorities say that 52-year-old Randy Reising, of Arnold, died Nov. 10 in rural Lewistown. The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called to a cabin where Reising and a group of friends were getting…
By DEB RIECHMANN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — An upcoming administration report about the circumstances surrounding the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may put President Donald Trump in a diplomatic bind: how to admonish Riyadh for the slaying yet maintain strong ties with a close ally in the Middle East. “We’ll be having…
CHICO, CA (AP) — Nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for and the death toll from the country’s deadliest wildfire in a century climbed to 76, authorities said Saturday, hours after President Donald Trump surveyed what remained of a decimated Northern California community. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea pleaded with fire evacuees to check the roster…