ST. LOUIS (AP) — A homeless man was found guilty of attacking four other homeless people with a hammer and handrail in St. Louis in a fight over snacks and water. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 62-year-old Edward Moore was convicted Friday on four counts each of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. Authorities said…
By CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press President Donald Trump said Saturday he has “a clear objective” for his upcoming nuclear summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, though he acknowledged that potential progress “will always be spur of the moment.” He described the meeting scheduled for Tuesday in Singapore as a “one-time shot” for Kim,…
By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A special prosecutor said Friday she will not refile a felony invasion-of-privacy charge against former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a week after Greitens resigned from office amid allegations of personal and political misconduct. St. Louis prosecutors last month dropped the charge that stemmed from Greitens’…
By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller has brought additional charges against President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and a longtime associate who prosecutors have said has ties to Russian intelligence. The new indictment was unsealed Friday against Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik just days after prosecutors…
By ROBERT BURNS , AP National Security Writer BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.S. will intensify combat against the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan during the Kabul government’s temporary halt to attacks on the Taliban, senior U.S. officials said Friday. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said this could, for example, allow the U.S. to partially shift the…
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) Today marks the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of a St. Charles County boy. It was on this day back in 1988 that 9-year-old Scott Kleeschulte went missing. Scott was last seen at approximately 4:30 or 5:00 p.m. He had left his home on Leverenz Drive and was walking down Ken…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The special prosecutor considering whether to re-file a felony invasion of privacy charge against former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will announce her decision on Friday. The office of Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says she will make a statement and offer details at 3 p.m. in Kansas City. The…
PARIS (AP) — American celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has been found dead in his hotel room in France while working on his CNN series on culinary traditions around the world. He was 61. CNN confirmed the death, saying in a statement he was found unresponsive Friday morning by friend and chef Eric Ripert, and calling…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri’s flagship campus will eliminate nearly 200 jobs as part of an effort to cut into a $49 million budget shortfall. The job reductions are among several moves to balance the budget for the Columbia campus for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Details were announced in…
LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — The parents of three children who died along with two of their cousins in a southern Missouri mobile home fire said they still aren’t able to grasp what has happened. The children died Wednesday in a mobile home fire in Lebanon. A 20-year-old woman who was the mother of the other…