By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — More than two full days after mudslides ravaged this coastal town, the search for the missing became an increasingly desperate exercise Thursday, with growing doubts about whether anyone would be found alive. Seventeen people were confirmed dead and eight others were unaccounted for. “They’re…
By JOHN O’CONNOR, AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner emerged Wednesday from a weeklong stay at a military veterans’ home beset by a deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak and announced the state will replace the plumbing at the sprawling, 130-year-old site. The first-term Republican told reporters that cutting-edge water distribution will quickly advance…
By MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ and ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of searchers continued the grueling work Thursday of hunting for survivors and digging up bodies in the sea of mud and wreckage left by flash flooding in this wealthy coastal enclave. Muck-spattered searchers from around the state slogged through knee-deep ooze, poking…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Governor Eric Greitens acknowledges he was “unfaithful” in his marriage but denies allegations that he blackmailed the woman he had an extramarital affair with to stay quiet. The Republican governor and his wife released a statement Wednesday night. It came after St. Louis television station KMOV reported that Greitens…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is set to give his second State of the State speech. Greitens will address the Republican-led Legislature Wednesday night at the Capitol to lay out priorities. He’ll release his budget proposal later. The first-time elected official has previously said he wants to enact tax changes,…
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said. Within 20 minutes, they verified…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man who has already served time in prison for killing a man when he was 15 is charged in another killing. Levander Williams was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and other charges. He is accused of fatally shooting 33-year-old Victor Williams in November. The men are not related.…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Maull’s Barbecue Sauce is going through a change of ownership and will remain in production. That’s according to a statement from Stephen Maull, vice president of Maull’s. Maull says the Louis Maull Company is in negotiations for the sale of the brand to a St. Louis company. The deal is anticipated to be…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A child is hospitalized after being shot in north county. Police say the 8-year-old girl was asleep in the bedroom of the family’s Castle Pointe home in the 10000 block of Count Drive when shots were fired at just before 4 a.m. Wednesday. A bullet traveled through the walls of the…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A storm that slammed a California coastal community is over. The search for its victims is not. Authorities in Santa Barbara County were still trying to reach new areas and dig into the destruction to find dead, injured or trapped people after a powerful…