OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A paroled robber who allegedly stabbed to death an 18-year-old woman in an unprovoked attack at a California train station is mentally ill and failed to receive proper treatment, his family said Tuesday. John Cowell, 27, was arrested Monday night on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train in the San Francisco…
ATLANTA (AP) — The state lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series will resign, according to a spokesman for Georgia House Speaker David Ralston. Rep. Jason Spencer will step down at the end of the month, spokesman Kaleb McMichen told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late Tuesday. In Sunday…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday announced she wants to enshrine into law federal recommendations to improve duck boat safety such as getting rid of canopies that can trap passengers if the vehicles sink, as happened on a Missouri lake last week when…
By MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A supermarket worker was killed by a bullet fired by Los Angeles police — not the gunman they were trying to stop — the city’s police chief acknowledged Tuesday, defending the decision to use deadly force as an attempt to stop what officers feared could become…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is praising Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley during a stop in Missouri. Trump called Hawley a “special man” while speaking Tuesday at the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City. He said “we need Josh badly,” then called Hawley on stage to…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say a prominent businesswoman and the wife of a former St. Louis police chief was killed instantly when a 1-ton chunk of concrete fell from a bridge over a roadway and crushed her car. Police on Tuesday identified the victim as 58-year-old Janet Torrisi-Mokwa, the wife of former chief Joe…
Indianapolis, IN. (AP) — A prayer vigil was held at an Indianapolis church last night for a family that lost nine family members in last week’s boating accident on Table Rock Lake. Hundreds of people gathered at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church to show their support for the Coleman family. The Rev. Carl Liggins Sr. says…
By ROB GILLIES and TAMARA LUSH , Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian investigators are digging into the life of a 29-year-old man, seeking to explain what prompted him to fire a handgun into restaurants and cafes in a lively Toronto neighborhood, killing a girl and a young woman and wounding 13 others. The Ministry…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Donald Trump is headed to Kansas City to speak at the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Trump’s arrival Tuesday comes just one day after the Senate confirmed Pentagon official Robert Wilkie to be secretary of Veterans Affairs following months of tumult. Wilkie will be tasked with…
AP – New research shows more promise for using AIDS treatment drugs as a prevention tool, to help keep uninfected people from catching HIV during sex with a partner who has the virus. There were no infections among gay men who used a two-drug combo pill either daily or just before and after sex with…