JOPLIN, MO (AP) — An Illinois truck driver has been charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed an 8-year-old girl as she crossed a road to board a school bus in southwest Missouri. The Joplin Globe reports that 49-year-old Lance Lee, of DeKalb, Illinois, was charged Thursday with one count of leaving the scene of an…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A north St. Louis man is facing charges in the fatal shooting of a man he suspected of stealing his tools. Fifty-one-year-old David Allen Sproling is charged with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of 60-year-old William Kirkwood. Sproling is accused of confronting Kirkwood at gunpoint Tuesday because he…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote at 1:30 p.m. on whether to recommend Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the full Senate. The chairman, Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, announced the vote as the committee began its meeting. Kavanaugh has just picked up a key vote of support from a…
Police report on Friday morning that Tony Walker returned home. Earlier Story Jennings, MO (KTRS) Police say a Jennings man having a diminished mental capacity has wondered away from his home and may be in danger. Thirty-eight-year-old Tony Taylor walked away from his home in the 8600 block of Jennings Station Road around 5 p.m.…
By MARJORIE MILLER and JOCELYN NOVECK , Associated Press It was one hearing with just two witnesses but, in an era of deep political polarization and yawning cultural divisions, Americans came away Thursday having heard very different things. Millions of men and women listened to nervous-but-composed college professor Christine Blasey Ford tell the Senate Judiciary Committee…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Brett Kavanaugh looked in desperate need of a fighter on his behalf Thursday as he gave impassioned testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee denying allegations of sexual assault. He found it in Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who told the judge straight out, “You’ve got nothing to apologize for.” Kavanaugh…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Republican Missouri Senate candidate Josh Hawley says a hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and an accuser against him is a “circus.” Hawley at a campaign event in St. Charles told reporters he had only seen snippets of the Thursday Senate hearing. But he says Democrats have “launched an ambush on…
By AMANDA LEE MYERS and SALLY HO , Associated Press BONNEY LAKE, Wash. (AP) — Every time Chris Gilman leaves her home at the foot of Washington’s Mount Rainier, she fights the gnawing urge to turn around and check that someone isn’t about to shoot her. Sometimes she wins the battle. Sometimes she loses. In…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A new contract from the Air Force will support an estimated 1,800 direct and indirect jobs in the St. Louis region. The contract is for $9.2 billion and calls on Boeing to build the T-X Advanced Pilot Training System, which includes 350 aircraft and ground-based training and support. Leanne Caret, president and CEO,…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some of the illegally dumped nuclear waste buried near a long-smoldering underground fire at a Missouri landfill will be dug up and the rest will be capped under a federal plan announced Thursday. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s remedy comes a decade after its initial…