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…
NEW YORK (AP) — During the height of Mexican drug wars in 1993, an attempted hit on Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman went wrong. A team of gunmen sent to rub out the notorious drug lord instead killed a Roman Catholic cardinal at an airport in Guadalajara, outraging the Mexican public enough to touch off a…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and BRIAN MELLEY , Associated Press MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — With Santa Ana winds returning and hundreds of homes in ashes, firefighters were struggling to corral a devastating Southern California wildfire that has ravaged scenic canyons and celebrity enclaves near the ocean. Crews taking advantage of a weekend lull in the winds had…