BRANSON, MO (AP) — The Latest on a deadly tourist boat accident in Missouri (all times local):3:25 p.m. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says emergency responders and civilian rescuers helped prevent an even worse tragedy after a duck boat capsized on a lake and killed 17 people. Parson spent Friday in the Branson area after the…
By SCOTT MCFETRIDGE and DAVID PITT , Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A flurry of unexpected tornadoes swept through central Iowa, injuring at least 17 people, flattening buildings in three cities and forcing the evacuation of a hospital. Residents — and even weather forecasters — were taken by surprise Thursday as the tornadoes…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — At least 13 people, including children, died after a boat carrying tourists capsized and sank on a lake during a thunderstorm in a country music mecca in southwest Missouri, authorities said Friday. Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jason Pace said four people remain missing Friday after the Ride the Ducks boat…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police say people have been taken to a local hospital after a tornado hit a factory in Pella where some people were working. Pella Police Lt. Shane Cox told KCCI-TV some people from Vermeer Manufacturing were taken to a hospital, but he didn’t know the extent of injuries or the…
POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) — A police detective and an official with the U.S. Marshals Service are recovering after being shot by a suspect in southeast Missouri. KFVS-TV reports that the officers went to an apartment in Poplar Bluff Thursday to arrest a man wanted on a warrant. When the officers entered the apartment, the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) A manslaughter charge has been filed in a street racing crash in March in which a St. Louis man was killed. The incident occurred March 4 in the 4000 block of Reavis Barracks Road in South St. Louis County when four cars were street racing and one of the cars collided with another…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Vice-President Mike Pence visited St. Louis on Thursday to promote the Administration’s tax cuts. The event was hosted by the non-profit group America First Policies at the St. Louis Marriott Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis.This was the 18th such event called “Tax Cuts To Put America First.” “More than six…
PARIS (AP) — A video showing one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s security chiefs beating a student demonstrator in May, until now cloaked in secrecy, is drawing a fierce public backlash over what is seen as mild punishment — a two-week suspension and a change in responsibilities. The growing uproar forced Macron’s spokesman to address…
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn’t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook. Speaking with Recode’s Kara Swisher, Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said in an interviewpublished Wednesday that he thinks there are things “that different people get wrong.” He added that he…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament approved a controversial piece of legislation on Thursday that defines the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people but which critics warn sidelines minorities. The government says the bill, passed in the early morning hours, will merely enshrine into law Israel’s existing character. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called its…