LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — Juan Romero, a hotel busboy who came to the aid of Robert F. Kennedy after the New York senator was shot in Los Angeles, has died. He was 68. Longtime family friend Rigo Chacon said Thursday that Romero had died Monday of a heart attack. Romero was a teenager in…
LOS ANGELES, CA (AP) — A judge on Thursday sentenced former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight to 28 years in prison for the 2015 death of man he ran over outside a Compton burger stand. Knight listened without reaction as members of the dead man’s family addressed the court, describing 55-year-old Terry Carter as a…
CLAYTON, MO (AP) — The mother of a 3-year-old boy who was accidentally shot and killed in her north St. Louis County home was sentenced to five years of probation. Semaj Porter was sentenced Wednesday for child endangerment in the December 2015 shooting of her son, Xavier “Zae” Robinson. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Porter was working…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 11:50 a.m. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the FBI’s background investigation of Brett Kavanaugh didn’t corroborate any of the sexual misconduct allegations against the Supreme Court nominee. McConnell says the FBI didn’t uncover information from any witnesses to corroborate the…
FLORENCE, SC (AP) — A Vietnam veteran who bragged online about maintaining his target-shooting skills was being held Thursday in the shooting of seven law enforcement officers, one of whom died, as deputies tried to serve a search warrant at his home. Authorities said Frederick Hopkins opened fire on the deputies from inside the home…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO (AP) — A federal judge has denied Planned Parenthood’s request for a Columbia clinic to be temporarily exempted from certain abortion regulations. U.S. Western District Court Judge Brian Wimes on Wednesday ruled against Planned Parenthood. The organization had asked Wimes to exempt the Columbia center from a state requirement that doctors must…
ST. LOUIS, MO (AP) — Authorities are looking for two women captured on surveillance video stealing security cameras from a Missouri home improvement store. St. Louis County police said in a Facebook post that the thefts happened on two separate occasions in September at a Menards store in the western part of the county. On Sept. 5,…
Arizona (KTRS) Over six-million pounds of beef is being recalled due to a salmonella outbreak. The USDA announced Thursday morning that Arizona-based JBS Tolleson is recalling the meat after 57 cases of salmonella in 16 states have been reported since August 5, 2018.. The raw, non-intact beef items, including ground beef, were packaged on various dates…
LONDON (AP) — The Latest on a new wave of global cyberattacks blamed on Russia (all times local): 2:50 p.m. Justice Department officials say three of the seven Russian military intelligence officials accused in the hacking of anti-doping agencies were previously charged by special counsel Robert Mueller. The three defendants named in an indictment unsealed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (all times local): 9:20 a.m. Some senators might need to wait until Friday for the chance to see the FBI report on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. A Democratic senator says lawmakers are being told that time slots for reading…