SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Two sheriff’s vans were parked outside and police officers stood at the gate of a cattle fence surrounding the address listed for the Texas church shooting suspect, preventing a group of waiting journalists from entering. Two officials who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity have identified…
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A sheriff says a man walked into a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and started shooting, leaving multiple people dead. The Wilson County News reports that Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt said the shooter has been taken down. It wasn’t immediately known how many people were killed and wounded…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — With a round of golf, a custom cap and a hamburger of American beef, President Donald Trump’s first trip to Asia began with a taste of home. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed Trump to Japan Sunday with an effusive display of friendship that, in the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Violence continues in the city of St. Louis. Police say a man in his forties was stabbed multiple times in the 3500 block of North Newstead late Saturday morning. The victim was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. A 28-year-old man…
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — From stricter laws to public service campaigns and pleading electronic road signs, states have a message for the drivers clogging the inside lanes of the nation’s highways: Get the heck out of the way! Few things infuriate drivers more than a car or truck in a highway’s…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — On his most grueling and consequential trip abroad, President Donald Trump stands ready to exhort Asian allies and rivals on the need to counter the dangers posed by North Korea’s nuclear threat. The 12-day, five-country trip, the longest Far East itinerary for a president in a generation, comes…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri senator has unveiled a plan to restore budget cuts affecting services for the elderly and disabled. Republican Sen. Mike Cunningham released the proposal Friday. It’s aimed at finding money for services by limiting a tax break for low-income seniors and disabled renters. It would cap the renters’ tax…
By JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — For the first time in eight years, Bowe Bergdahl doesn’t face confinement, or the threat of it, after a judge spared the soldier from a prison sentence for endangering his comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan. The sentence, which also includes a dishonorable discharge,…
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press The man who killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas last month had been depressed after losing a significant amount of money in the past two years and that may have been a “determining factor” in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, the city’s sheriff…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) Police are investigating after three people were shot after a funeral in north county. Police say the victims were leaving a funeral ceremony at the Ambassador in the 9800 block of New Halls Ferry Road on Friday afternoon when shots were fired from a car. The suspects in the car…