LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An April trial is scheduled for a Missouri man who allegedly stopped an Amtrak train in Nebraska. Not guilty pleas were entered Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Lincoln for Taylor Wilson, of St. Charles, Missouri, according to court records. He’s charged with attempting to disable a train and attempting to…
PARKLAND, FL (AP) Updated 3:22 p.m. CT: Authorities say the shooter at a South Florida high school is now in custody. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office gave no details in briefly tweeting that development. It did not identify the shooting suspect nor say how the person was taken into custody. Television footage showed police putting a…
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at a Florida high school Wednesday sent students rushing out into the streets as SWAT team members swarmed in and locked down the building, and police warned the shooter was still at large. Ambulances converged on the scene as emergency workers appeared to be treating possibly wounded people on…
Cahokia, IL (KTRS) A man is dead and a woman is hospitalized after being rescued from an overnight house fire in Cahokia. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. Wednesday at a home on Westwood Drive. Firefighters pulled an elderly man and his daughter from the burning home and had to perform CPR. The man…
By The Associated Press FORT MEADE, Maryland (AP) — Police responded to a shooting Wednesday outside the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, where authorities surrounded a handcuffed man after a black SUV ran into a barrier. Fort Meade garrison spokeswoman Cheryl Phillips confirmed by phone that one person was injured in the shooting…
Webster Groves, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing child. Police say 11-year-old Terrauna Childs ran away from the Great Circle Children’s Home in Webster Groves around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday. Terrauna is described as a black, female, 5-feet tall, weighing 90 pounds, with black hair worn in an afro style, and…
MACOUPIN COUNTY, ILL (KTRS) Investigators with the Major Case Squad now say they believe foul play is involved in the disappearance of a Macoupin County woman. The Major Case Squad reports it has spent 12 days investigating the disappearance of 37-year-old Denita Hedden, who was last seen January 25th, her birthday. That night, Hedden is believed…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is siding with the state Ethics Commission after it charged a former state lawmaker nearly $230,000 in fees for campaign finance violations. Judges on Tuesday unanimously ruled that fees against former St. Louis Democratic Sen. Robin Wright-Jones were constitutional and within legal limits. Wright-Jones had argued…
By ANDREW TAYLOR and MARTIN CRUTSINGER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump’s budget, but the administration’s allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year’s tax cut rather than the trillion-dollar deficits contained in the new spending plan. The president’s…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The Guns ‘N Hoses Boxing Association announced a record donation of $700,000 to The BackStoppers, a nonprofit organization that assists families of first responders who die or suffer a catastrophic injury in the line of duty. The donation was made possible thanks to proceeds generated from the 31st annual Budweiser Guns ‘N Hoses…