Walla Walla, WA (AP) The smoke from dozens of wildfires in the western United States is stretching clear across the country — and even pushing into Mexico, Canada and Europe. While the dangerous plumes are forcing people inside along the West Coast, residents thousands of miles away in the East are seeing unusually hazy skies…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An area man is facing child molestation charges. St. Louis County Police say that the prosecuting attorney’s office issued warrants Wednesday for 59-year-old Aaron McAllister for 3 counts of first degree child molestation. The probable cause statement says McAllister entered the bedrooms of 3 girls between the ages of 4 and…
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Sally has lumbered ashore near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, with top winds of 105 mph. The coast is being pummeled with sideways rain and beach-covering storm surges. Sally’s northern eyewall raked the Gulf Coast for hours before the center finally made landfall, delivering punishing wind and…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Hospitalizations for the coronavirus have risen across Missouri in recent days. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that three of the four highest days for hospitalizations have occurred over the past week, based on data from the state health department. The most recent data shows 1,021 patients in hospitals with confirmed or…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Warrants are issued in Sunday night’s officer-involved shooting near the Homer G. Phillips Senior Center in north city. 20-year-old Demond Montrell Lee Jr. has been charged by the Circuit Attorney’s office with one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon in the incident, which unfolded just after 7 P.M. in the…
Pensacola, FL (AP) — The Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama are taking a pummeling from a resurgent Hurricane Sally as it moves toward the coast. The storm quickly gained strength early Wednesday to become a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds. With landfall expected some time in the coming hours, tens of thousands are…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The city of Louisville will pay millions to the mother of Breonna Taylor and reform police practices as part of a lawsuit settlement months after Taylor’s slaying by police thrust the Black woman’s name to the forefront of a national reckoning on race. A person who has seen the settlement told…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to preside over the signing of historic diplomatic deals between Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that could herald a dramatic shift in Middle East power dynamics. The Tuesday ceremony at the White House is aimed at showcasing presidential statesmanship ahead of November’s election. Trump will host…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A teenage girl shot to death in St. Louis this week has become the city’s 194th homicide victim in 2020, matching the total for all of 2019 with 3 1/2 months still to go in the year. Police responded to a call around 6 p.m. Monday in the city’s Riverview neighborhood…
Waveland, MS (AP) — A powerful but plodding Hurricane Sally is crawling toward the northern Gulf Coast. Rain from the storm’s outer bands was pummeling northwest Florida early Tuesday, and Gov. Ron DeSantis declared an emergency in two western Panhandle counties. The storm’s slow movement is raising concerns of extreme rainfall and flooding. President Donald…