By ILAN BEN ZION, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, Christians and muslims — and ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz’s plan, currently in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican gains and protests that erupted after a white officer’s acquittal in a black suspect’s shooting death were among the top 10 stories in Missouri in 2017. The full list is: RACE ISSUES DOMINATE AFTER OFFICER’S AQUITTAL IN ST. LOUIS POLICE SHOOTING The acquittal of a white police office in…
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three young brothers were killed and their mother and five people in another vehicle were injured in a three-vehicle crash in southwest Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the mother was driving her boys over a narrow highway bridge southeast of Joplin Tuesday night when her SUV collided…
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Freezing temperatures and below-zero wind chills socked much of the northern United States on Wednesday, and the snow-hardened city of Erie, Pennsylvania, dug out from a record snowfall. A storm brought 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day to Erie, an all-time daily snowfall record for the Great Lakes city, and…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Five people died on Missouri roads and highways over the Christmas weekend, and roads left slippery by the winter weather contributed to nearly 500 accidents — almost twice as many as the 2016 holiday weekend. The patrol said Tuesday that 125 people were injured during the period that began Friday…
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is predicting that Democrats and Republicans will “eventually come together “on a new health care plan for the country. Sending a Twitter post early Tuesday from his Florida resort, Trump said “the very unfair and unpopular Individual Mandate has been terminated as part of our Tax Cut…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) – Lawyers for four St. Louis University students accused of sexual misconduct have received the campus’ Title IX investigation and are reviewing it. Attorney Scott Rosenblum, who represents three of the four athletes, confirms to KTRS News they are studying the report but are not prepared to discuss it right now. The campus…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Heather Menzies-Urich, who played one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film, “The Sound of Music,” has died. She was 68. Her son, actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that his mother died late Sunday in Frankford, Ontario. She recently had been diagnosed with brain cancer. “She…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An effort to remove guns from the streets of St. Louis is being called a success, so much so that there wasn’t enough money to buy up all of the offered weapons. Hundreds of people turned out Saturday for a gun buyback program, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported . The city…
CHICAGO (AP) — The good news for many in the Northeast and Midwest was that it has been a white Christmas. The bad news was that a blizzard swept into parts of New England and bitter cold enveloped much of the Midwest. Even the usually rainy Pacific Northwest got the white stuff. The National Weather…