By HEIDI BROWN, Associated Press CROZET, Va. (AP) — The safety arms at a railroad crossing where a train carrying Republican lawmakers slammed into a garbage truck appeared to be malfunctioning the day before the deadly crash, drivers who regularly cross over the tracks at the crash scene said Thursday. Gene Locke, who lives near the…
By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A girl believed to be 12 years old opened fire Thursday in a middle school classroom, critically wounding one classmate and injuring three others, authorities said. Police arrested the girl and recovered a gun after the shooting that happened just before 9 a.m. at Salvador B.…
Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to clean up a St. Louis area landfill where Cold War-era nuclear waste was illegally dumped four decades ago by partially excavating it. The EPA said Thursday that the plan calls for removing the majority of radioactive contamination that poses a health…
By ALAN FRAM and HEIDI BROWN, Associated Press CROZET, Va. (AP) — Republican members of Congress with medical experience put their skills to work after a train carrying dozens of them crashed into a garbage truck in rural Virginia, killing one person in the truck and injuring others. The congressmen were on their way to a…
By ALAN FRAM and HEIDI BROWN, Associated Press CROZET, Va. (AP) — Republican members of Congress with medical experience put their skills to work after a train carrying dozens of them crashed into a garbage truck in rural Virginia, killing one person in the truck and injuring others. The congressmen were on their way to a…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A shooting involving an off-duty Velda City police officer in south St. Louis is being investigated. Authorities say the officer shot a man late Wednesday night outside of a bar at Spring Avenue and Potomac Street. The man was reportedly armed with a knife. Fox 2 News reports the shooting stemmed from…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing north county teen. Police say 15-year-old Elijah Carter left a note stating he was having suicidal thoughts before leaving his home on 11235 Laporte Lane around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Elijah Carter is described as a black male,5 feet 3 inches in…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens’ attorneys say ordering the governor and his staff to stop using an app that erases text messages would violate free speech rights. The Kansas City Star has reported that Greitens and some of his staff use a Confide app that deletes text messages and prevents them from…
EDWARDSVILLE, IL (KTRS) Edwardsville Police say they found “Mabel,” the mannequin which had been reported stolen from the Edwardsville Robert Stille Township Park, during the A-7 Corsair aircraft renovation this past summer. Police received a tip Jan. 24 of her whereabouts. A subsequent investigation was conducted and led to the location of “Mabel” at an Edwardsville…
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — Another wave of victims confronted Larry Nassar on Wednesday, this time about sexual abuse at an elite Michigan gymnastics club where young athletes felt they had to use the disgraced doctor’s services and could not question the adults who ran the facility. The judge presiding over the…