By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER , Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Hurricane Lane has weakened as it approaches Hawaii but was still expected to pack a wallop, forecasters said Wednesday, as people hurried to buy water and other supplies and the Navy moved its ships to safety. The National Weather Service said tropical-storm-force winds could begin…
MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — The manager of a dairy farm that employed the man charged with killing an Iowa college student says he has received dozens of threatening phone messages and other contacts in the last 24 hours, including death threats. Dane Lang, manager of Yarrabee Farms in Brooklyn, Iowa, says one person threatened to kill…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) — Police say a stolen car wanted in connection with the murder of a teen on his 17th birthday was found torched in north county. Police announced Wednesday that the 2009 four-door Pontiac G8 was found near a stretch of railroad tracks in Spanish Lake. The discovery was made after police…
Chesterfield, MO (KTRS) It’s an end of an era for St. Louis-based Monsanto as Bayer begins its integration of the over century old company. Bayer executives held a meet and greet Wednesday morning at it’s Chesterfield facility to share its plans for the newly formed company. Liam Condon, President of the Crop Science Division of…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president’s associates. A judge declared…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has referred the investigation into last month’s deadly sinking of a Missouri tourist boat to federal prosecutors, officials said Tuesday. Coast Guard spokeswoman Lisa Novak confirmed a report first published by the Kansas City Star that the case was referred to…
By RYAN FOLEY , Associated Press MONTEZUMA, Iowa (AP) — A man from Mexico living in the U.S. illegally has confessed to kidnapping college student Mollie Tibbetts while she was running in her small Iowa hometown, killing her and dumping her body in a cornfield, authorities said Tuesday. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was arrested and…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) St. Louis police are seeking the public’s help in finding a car taken in a carjacking and used in the murder of Armond Latimore Saturday, Aug. 18 – the day when Latimore turned 17. Police say Latimore was fatally shot in the 3100 block of North Grand Saturday afternoon. About an hour…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president’s associates. A judge declared…
BERLIN (AP) — A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived quietly in New York City for decades was carried out of his home on a stretcher by federal agents and flown to Germany early Tuesday in what could prove to be the last U.S. deportation of a World War II-era war-crimes suspect. Jakiw…