SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) — Failed efforts to authenticate Abraham Lincoln’s ownership of a stovepipe hat were kept secret for years by the nonprofit group that owns the hat. WBEZ Chicago reports that the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation sought national museum experts’ review in 2013 and an FBI DNA analysis in 2015 to prove Lincoln’s link to the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her decades ago (all times local): 12:10 p.m. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley says the FBI does not need to look into the sexual-assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh because Republicans…
WILMINGTON, NC (AP) — The death toll from Hurricane Florence climbed to at least 37, including two mental health patients who drowned when a sheriff’s van was swept away by floodwaters, and North Carolina’s governor pleaded with thousands of evacuees not to return home just yet. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, arrived in storm-ravaged North Carolina…
St. Louis, MO (AP) — Police say a man charged in a deadly St. Louis salvage yard shooting told a detective he was “startled” when he opened fire. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 46-year-old Charles Lay is charged with involuntary manslaughter and unlawful possession of a firearm in the death of Lionel Anthony Brown. Officers…
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL (AP) — Prosecutors say a 31-year-old San Diego, California, woman who went by the online alias “The Drug Llama” faces federal charges in southern Illinois in a conspiracy that included the shipment of more than 50,000 fentanyl pills nationwide. The U.S. attorney’s office in southern Illinois said Tuesday that Melissa Scanlan used…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accuses him of sexually assaulting her decades ago (all times local): 10:05 a.m. President Donald Trump says “we’ll have to make a decision” if Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual-assault accuser “makes a credible showing” before the Senate Judiciary Committee.…
Ferguson, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing Ferguson man. Police say 20-year-old Ryan Becker, who is mentally disabled, was last seen walking down an alley in the area of Walnut Grove Elementary School around 5 a.m. Wednesday. Ryan is described as white, weighing 165 pounds, with brown hair brown…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO , WASHINGTON (AP) — Christine Blasey Ford wants the FBI to investigate her allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh before she testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next week, her lawyers said in a letter to the panel. The lawyers wrote that Ford,…
A valet driver is run over and killed in a metro-east parking lot. Thirty-nine-year-old Kenya Randall was struck and killed while working at the popular Club-Da-Beano Monday night. East St. Louis Detective Lemar Martin says surveillance video shows the driver did brake but then kept going. Co-worker Earlest Johnson says Randall was well liked and…
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump showered sympathy Tuesday on Brett Kavanaugh, his embattled Supreme Court nominee who is accused of sexual assault, as Senate Republicans and Democrats fought determinedly over who should testify at a high-stakes hearing on the allegation just six weeks before major…