HOUSTON (AP) — A Jordanian immigrant was sentenced to death on Tuesday after being convicted in what Texas prosecutors described as the honor killings of his daughter’s American husband and her friend who was an Iranian women’s rights activist. Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan was found guilty of capital murder last month in the 2012 fatal shootings…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Senator Claire McCaskill continues to speak out against the lawsuit Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley joined challenging the Affordable Care Act. The Democratic lawmaker held a roundtable in midtown St. Louis on Tuesday with those who have pre-existing medical conditions. McCaskill said at issue is that the lawsuit aims to wipe…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physician partners at Washington University School of Medicine are once again among the nation’s elite medical centers on the latest U.S. News & World Report’s annual Honor Roll of “America’s Best Hospitals,” ranking number eleven in the country. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is also again ranked number one in both Missouri…
By MORGAN LEE , Associated Press TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A state judge on Monday cleared the way for five defendants who were arrested on child abuse charges at a remote New Mexico compound to be released pending trial despite authorities’ suspicions that the group was training children to use firearms for an anti-government mission.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating a triple shooting in north St. Louis that left one man dead. Authorities say the three victims were gunned down at just late Monday night in the 4400 block of Penrose. Two of the victims suffered non-life threatening injuries. The third died at the scene. The deceased victim’s…
By GENE JOHNSON , Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The spectacular theft of a 76-seat plane from the Seattle airport by a ground crew employee is prompting an industrywide review of how to thwart such insider security threats, though it remains unclear what steps airlines might take. “This is too big a deal. It’s not…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new audit found that Ferguson, Missouri, has made significant progress in addressing problems in its municipal court, which drew scrutiny for its treatment of poor and minority people after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in 2014. Democratic Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway’s report…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill says she supports measures on Missouri’s November ballot to increase the state’s minimum wage and hike the gas tax. McCaskill recently told reporters that she also supports medical marijuana. She said she “couldn’t be more enthusiastic” about another proposal that would change redistricting and limit lobbyist…
By BEN FINLEY , Associated Press The son of a powerful Republican congressman lambasted his father on Twitter on Monday for “ruining” the career of a recently fired FBI agent who had sent anti-Trump text messages during the Russia investigation. The son of U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte also began soliciting campaign donations on Sunday for…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A 10-week-old Missouri girl has died after being left inside a hot vehicle. The Southeast Missourian reports that siblings found the infant Saturday afternoon inside a vehicle at Parkwood Lake Estates trailer park in Cape Girardeau, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of St. Louis. She was pronounced dead at…