(AP) – A British diver who helped rescue youth soccer players trapped in a cave in Thailand is suing Elon Musk, alleging that the Tesla CEO falsely accused him of being a pedophile. Diver Vernon Unsworth, who lives north of London, contends that Musk made the false allegation on Twitter and then repeated multiple other…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway says cities and counties skipped out on an extra $698,000 in fees that could have gone to domestic violence shelters last year. According to an audit released Monday by Galloway, that’s because state law doesn’t require those court fees to be collected. But Galloway says the…
WARRENTON, MO (AP) — The trial of a suspect facing the death penalty after a triple homicide has been postponed. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 27-year-old Shawn Kavanagh’s trial on three counts of first-degree murder and other charges was scheduled to begin Wednesday. One of Kavanaugh’s lawyers, Robert Lundt, asked for a postponement because he was too…
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The woman accusing Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her is willing to tell her story in public to a Senate panel considering his nomination to the Supreme Court, her lawyer said Monday. Kavanaugh had been on a smooth confirmation track, but the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Two people are dead and another is hospitalized following separate shootings in north St. Louis. Police say a man found shot to death inside of a truck on Martin Luther King Drive near Kingshighway late Sunday afternoon. Then around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, two men were shot in gangway near Sherry and…
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — With Wilmington cut off from the rest of North Carolina by still-rising floodwaters from Florence, officials plan to airlift food and water to a city of nearly 120,000 people as rescuers elsewhere pull inland residents from homes threatened by swollen rivers.The spreading disaster claimed additional lives Sunday, with at least 17…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation for the Supreme Court is taking an uncertain turn as Republican senators express concern over a woman’s private-turned-public allegation that a drunken Kavanaugh groped her and tried to take off her clothes at a party when they were teenagers. The White House and other Kavanaugh supporters had dismissed…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) – A man is dead following a double shooting in North City. Just after 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, two individuals began shooting at each other in the Walnut Park West neighborhood near the intersection of Goodfellow and Sherry. A bystander was hit, and was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.…
St. Clair County, IL (KTRS) – A man is dead and a woman injured following a car accident in the metro east yesterday morning. According to the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department, an SUV was traveling North on Dressel-Schoene Road at North Grove School Rd when a truck traveling westbound entered the intersection with the…
Wentzville, MO (KTRS) (Updated 4 p.m.) Wentzville police say no charges are expected in the death of a two-year-old who was struck and killed by an ice cream truck this weekend. Police say Felicity Karam was struck around 4:00 Sunday afternoon in the 4900 block of Summer Rain Drive. She was taken to an area hospital…