HARRISBURG, IL (AP) — Snakes and amphibians that have not yet crossed Snake Road in Shawnee National Forest can relax because officials are giving them a little more time to make the trek. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports that typically the 2.5-mile-long (4-kilometer-long) stretch of road in Southern Illinois is closed to automobiles for the annual…
CORDOBA, Mexico (AP) — A big group of Central Americans has agreed to push toward Mexico City from a coastal state Monday, planning to exit a part of the country that has long been treacherous for migrants seeking to get to the United States. In a thundering voice vote Sunday night at a gymnasium in…
ATLANTA, GA (AP) — Georgia’s online voter database morphed into a last-minute curveball in one of the nation’s hottest governor’s races, with Republican nominee Brian Kemp making a hacking allegation against Democrats just as reports emerged of a gaping vulnerability in a system that Kemp controls as secretary of state. Kemp’s office did not detail…
Cape Girardeau, MO (KTRS) President Donald Trump is returning to Missouri ahead of Tuesday’s general election. The President will be in Cape Girardeau this evening to make one final push for Senate Candidate Josh Hawley and other Republicans. The campaign event is scheduled for 9 o’clock this evening at the Show Me Center, with doors…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis homicide detectives are investigating following a shooting in North St. Louis Sunday. According to investigators, the shooting occurred just after 9 PM in the 1100 block of Riverview in the Baden neighborhood near the Halls Ferry Circle. An unconscious male in his 20’s was transported to an area hospital.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri voters on Tuesday will consider a ballot measure that supporters say would make state government more ethical. Constitutional Amendment 1, the so-called “Clean Missouri” proposal, aims to replace Missouri’s system for drawing state legislative districts with a model designed to have the number of seats won by each party more…
By GARY FINEOUT and TAMARA LUSH , Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man trying to stop a shooting attack on a Florida yoga studio said Sunday that he wrestled with the attacker after his gun jammed, a move credited with giving others time to flee the rampage that killed two people and wounded…
By ASIM TANVEER , Associated Press MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — The husband of a Christian woman acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, but not released after countrywide protests, appealed on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May to help the family leave Pakistan. Asia Bibi’s husband,…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE , Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has approvingly evoked former President Ronald Reagan. She said she would back President Donald Trump if he stopped a migrant caravan at the border. And speaking on Fox News, she has decried “crazy Democrats.” What is the Democratic senator up to?…
By FRANCES D’EMILIO , Associated Press ROME (AP) — Storms lashing Sicily have killed at least 12 people with torrential floods, Italian authorities said as the country’s leader headed Sunday to the stricken Mediterranean island. Divers pulled out nine of those victims from a home flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near…