(Associated Press) Missouri vehicle owners will be getting new red, white and blue license plates to commemorate the state’s bicentennial. The new plates will be distributed as people renew their licenses over the next couple of years. The goal is to have them all in place before the state’s 200th anniversary in 2021.
By ARON HELLER , Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A rocket fired from Gaza struck a residential home in southern Israel early Wednesday and the Israeli military began attacking militant sites in Gaza in response after days of rising tensions. The Magen David Adom medical service said a woman and her three children, whose home in…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Schnucks has issued a recall on its deli Santa Fe chicken salad due to possible listeria contamination. Schnucks says it was notified by its supplier that corn in the product may be contaminated with Listeria. The recall was issued for 32 area stores. . Listeria is a bacterial organism that can cause serious and…
By MARCIA DUNN , AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The NASA astronaut who survived last week’s failed launch and emergency landing knew he needed to stay calm. Air Force Col. Nick Hague on Tuesday described the closest call of his career: His space capsule violently ripped from his damaged rocket shortly after…
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — At least seven people died and nearly 80 were injured after a shuttle train linking the Moroccan capital to a town farther north on the Atlantic coast derailed Tuesday, authorities at the accident site said. The train derailed about halfway between Rabat and the town of Kenitra, near the city of…
PANAMA CITY, FL (AP) — Hurricane Michael killed at least 16 people in Florida, most of them in the coastal county that took a direct hit from the storm, state emergency authorities said Tuesday. That’s in addition to at least 10 deaths elsewhere across the South. The scope of the storm’s fury became clearer after…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in two deadly St. Louis shootings has been linked to a third. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 21-year-old William Malik Pearson Jr. is charged with first-degree murder and other charges in the November 2017 shooting that killed 21-year-old Leon Smith Jr. and wounded an 18-year-old woman.…
CHICAGO, IL (AP) — Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker each reported income of roughly $55 million last year. Rauner and Pritzker released partial copies of their 2017 tax returns Tuesday. Rauner’s filing shows he and his wife reported about $54 million in state taxable income and $52.7 million in federal…
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern. At least 62 cases have been confirmed in 22 states this year, and at least 65 additional illnesses in those states are being investigated,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The co-founder of a political research firm that was behind a dossier of allegations about President Donald Trump’s connections to Russia refused to speak to two House committees during a closed-door interview Tuesday. A lawyer for Glenn Simpson said in a statement that he had exercised his Fifth Amendment rights and refused…