WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate. Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott of the session Thursday to keep confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick on track before Election Day. Democratic senators refused to show up in protest of the GOP’s rush…
Benton, IL (KTRS) An metro-east identity thief is going to prison. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office, 37-year-old Tamecia Buckley of Cahokia was sentenced to 75 months Wednesday on 7 fraud counts and 5 counts of aggravated identity theft. She pleaded guilty back in July and has been in federal custody since August of last…
Nashville, TN (AP) After meeting in perhaps the most cacophonous debate in modern history, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, will take the stage Thursday to try again. The bar to improve upon their last prime-time meeting is low. Their cringeworthy first debate last month was punctuated by frequent interruptions, mostly from…
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for a feature-length documentary that made its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. The papal thumbs up came mid-way through “Francesco,” which delves into the environment, poverty, migration, racial and income inequality and other issues…
Arlington, TX (AP) — A crowd of 11,388 attended the World Series opener between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays, the lowest count in a Fall Classic since Game 6 in 1909. They spread in groups of up to four, mostly in alternate rows and none directly behind each other among the forest…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A suspect is on the loose following an officer-involved shooting in north county. Just after 4 P.M. Tuesday, an officer with the Moline Acres Police Department was in the 9800 block of Monarch when he saw an individual known to be wanted for a violent felony. He approached and attempted to…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed by the family of a woman killed at a Starbucks in Olivette on Oct. 3. Glenda Simmons was inside the Starbucks when a 78-year old Olivette man driving an Audi SUV crashed through the storefront. Simmons died later in the hospital. The suit alleges…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is wooing Pennsylvania voters, brushing aside debate practice ahead of what may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the race in the final presidential faceoff. Democrat Joe Biden is taking the opposite approach, opting to hole up for debate prep. In the leadup to Thursday’s…
LAMAR, Mo. (AP) — A 39-year-old former student teacher in southwestern Missouri has been sentenced to four years in prison for sending nude photographs of herself to three 13-year-old male students back in 2017. The Joplin Globe reports that former at Lamar Middle School teacher Emily Edson was sentenced last week to four years for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers. The litigation marks the government’s most significant act to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. The suit could…