KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial sent the jury out of the courtroom and berated the prosecutor for questioning Rittenhouse about whether it was appropriate to use deadly force to protect property. Judge Bruce Schroeder heatedly accused lead prosecutor Thomas Binger on Wednesday of improperly trying to introduce testimony that…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of killing his wife and burying her body in a park has taken the stand to testify in his first-degree murder trial. Joseph Elledge is accused of killing his wife, 28-year-old Mengqi Ji, whom he reported missing in October 2019. Her remains were found in March in…
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Drone video played Tuesday for jurors at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial showed the moment that Rittenhouse shot Joseph Rosenbaum, the first person killed during a night of turbulent protests on the streets of Kenosha. The video was zoomed in and slowed down by a forensic imaging specialist at the state crime…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis County man is charged with two separate killings, and police are trying to determine if he was involved in at least four other homicides in Missouri and Kansas. Perez Deshay Reed is suspected of killing a 16-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man in September in St. Louis County.…
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Barack Obama is expressing confidence that the Biden administration will ultimately get its $555 billion climate package through Congress and says that bill will be “historic.” At the U.N. climate talks Monday, he also faulted U.S. rivals China and Russia for what he called a “dangerous lack of urgency” in cutting…
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A witness at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial says the first man shot on the streets of Kenosha was acting “belligerently” but did not appear to pose a serious threat to anyone. Jason Lackowski is a former Marine who said he was in Kenosha during turbulent protests over racial injustice last year…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A series of killings that happened nearly three decades ago throughout the Midwest and largely along Interstate 70 is getting a new look. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that detectives and federal agents from Raytown, Missouri, Wichita, Kansas, and the Indiana cities of Indianapolis and Terre Haute met this week…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Russian analyst who provided information for a dossier of research used during the Trump-Russia investigation has been charged with lying to the FBI when questioned about his work. A grand jury indictment issued in federal court in Virginia charges Igor Danchenko with five counts of false statements. The case was brought…
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A lawsuit accuses a suburban St. Louis health department of violating state law because of its COVID-19 quarantine policies and recommendations for wearing masks in public schools. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the lawsuit was filed Oct. 27 by the St. Charles County Parents Association. It claims that the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Another significant golf event is coming to Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis County, though it’s still nine years away. Officials said at a news conference on Wednesday that Bellerive will be the site of the 2030 Presidents Cup, a biennial tournament in which golfers from the U.S. compete against a…