By DEB RIECHMANN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Whistleblower or traitor, leaker or public hero? National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the lid off U.S. government surveillance methods five years ago, but intelligence chiefs complain that revelations from the trove of classified documents he disclosed are still trickling out. That includes recent reporting…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after a man’s body was found at the North Hanley MetroLink Station. Police say the victim was discovered in the cab of a tractor trailer parked at the station on Saturday. The victim’s name has not been released. The cause of death hasn’t been determined.
By KRISTEN DE GROOT , Associated Press The final phase of the Flight 93 National Memorial is underway and on track to open on the 17th anniversary of plane’s crash into a Pennsylvania field during 9/11. United Airlines Flight 93 was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco on Sept. 11, 2001, when…
FLORRISANT, Mo. (AP) — A woman and baby have been found dead inside an apartment north county.. St. Louis County Police say the 24-year-old woman and a boy believed to be about 1 year old were found dead by officers around 8 p.m. Friday. Police had not released the identities of the victims by Saturday…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyers composed a secret 20-page letter to special counsel Robert Mueller to assert that he cannot be forced to testify while arguing that he could not have committed obstruction because he has absolute authority over all federal investigations. The existence of the letter,…
By BLAKE NELSON , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Minutes after Mike Parson was sworn in as Missouri’s new governor, he said he believed he might have the power to appoint someone to the position he vacated. “I do believe that there is some validity in appointing a lieutenant governor of the state…
SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — In the sweltering twilight on their school’s football field, 328 seniors at a Southeast Texas high school received their diplomas Friday with memories of a deadly mass shooting fresh in their minds. The Santa Fe High School seniors gathered in the 83-degree heat and 76 percent humidity on the artificial-turf…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) Outgoing Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has granted five pardons and commuted four criminal sentences on his final day in office before his planned resignation. Some of the people pardoned or commuted Friday were woman Greitens says were victims of rape or abuse. Pardons restore rights but don’t expunge criminal records. Those…
By ZEKE MILLER, JOSH LEDERMAN and JONATHAN LEMIRE , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-North Korea summit is back on, President Donald Trump announced Friday, ending weeks of uncertainty about a historic meeting with Kim Jong Un, to discuss ending the North Korean leader’s nuclear program. Trump made the announcement, just a week after…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has signed 77 measures into law, just hours before his resignation, including one creating a specific crime related to the allegations he faces. Greitens signed a bill Friday creating a felony of threatening the nonconsensual dissemination of a private sexual image by attempting to coerce another person…