CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (AP) — The president of Southeast Missouri State University is apologizing after he was captured on video drinking from a beer bong at a tailgate party. The Southeast Missourian reports that president Carlos Vargas-Aburto said in an email that it was a “poor decision” to accept the drink before Southeast’s Sept. 15 football…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s appearance at the U.N. General Assembly (all times local): 10:20 a.m. President Donald Trump is holding up the whole world. Trump ran a bit late for his once-a-year speech at the U.N. General Assembly, forcing organizers to change the order of speakers. Trump was scheduled…
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK , Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Facing the possibility of prison at 81, Bill Cosby arrived at a suburban Philadelphia courthouse Tuesday to learn his punishment for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman over a decade ago in what led to the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped charges — for now — against three St. Louis police officers accused of falsifying time sheets and getting paid for overtime they didn’t perform. A bench trial had been set for Monday for officers Michael Langsdorf, Emin Talic, and Dan O’Brien. The decision to drop the charges was…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man who received five consecutive life sentences for his role in the 1991 killings of the Kerry sisters on the old Chain of Rocks Bridge could be freed as early as 2020. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 47-year-old Reginald Clemons has his first parole board hearing next June because the…
By JEFFREY COLLINS , Associated Press GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Eleven days ago, Lee Gantt was at a Hurricane Florence party in her neighborhood in Georgetown, where the story goes that some houses haven’t flooded from the Sampit River since they were built before the American Revolution. She will spend Tuesday with sandbags, watching the nearby…
A John Burrows 8th grader from Florissant is getting National exposure with her singing on NBC. Thirteen-year-old Kennedy Holmes is on NBC’s “The Voice” and got to sing with her inspiration, Jennifer Hudson, who will also be her voice coach on the show. Approximately, seven million people watched The Voice last night. All four judges…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is defending his lawsuit against the operators of a duck boat that sank in July, killing 17 people. In August, Hawley filed suit accusing Branson Duck Vehicles and Ripley Entertainment Inc. of violating Missouri’s consumer protection law and putting profits above safety, citing the July…
By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK , Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Declaring Bill Cosby doesn’t deserve a free pass because of his advanced age, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to sentence the comedian to five to 10 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman, while the defense argued…
By JEFFREY COLLINS , Associated Press YAUHANNAH, S.C. (AP) — More than a week ago, pastor Willie Lowrimore and some of his congregants stacked sandbags around their South Carolina church to protect it from the fury of Hurricane Florence. They moved the pews to higher ground and watched anxiously for days as the nearly black,…