By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and KELLI KENNEDY , Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida secretary of state ordered recounts in the U.S. Senate and governor races on Saturday, an unprecedented review of two major contests in the state that took five weeks to decide the 2000 presidential election. Secretary Ken Detzner issued the order…
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri sheriff accused in the beating death of a jail inmate used his knee to press on the man’s neck and, when repeatedly urged by a police officer to stop, responded, “No, I’m good,” according to a wrongful death lawsuit seeking at least $20 million for the inmate’s…
By DON THOMPSON and GILLIAN FLACCUS , Associated Press PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A fierce wildfire in Northern California incinerated most of a town of about 30,000 people with flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do, authorities said Friday. Nine people died in what quickly grew into the state’s most destructive…
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) A 17-year-old girl and her boyfriend are facing charges in connection with her grandfather’s murder in St. Charles. Verjulia Watkins and her boyfriend, Damontaye Perkins, both 17, have been charged in the death of 64-year-old Roy Cedric Nash. He was found shot to death in front yard of his home in the…
By DAVID PORTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH , Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man charged with killing three people in Missouri this month should have faced deportation proceedings after he was arrested last year for a separate offense in New Jersey, instead of being released, federal immigration officials said Friday. Twenty-three-year-old Luis Perez, who…
PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — A surgical nurse who evacuated from a Northern California hospital with a wildfire roaring nearby says she had to return after her vehicle went up in flames and one of her pant legs caught fire. Nichole Jolly said Friday that she helped evacuate patients Thursday from Adventist Health Feather River Hospital…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) A Berkeley man is facing life behind bars in the murder of his girlfriend. That sentence was handed down Thursday for 29-year-old Ray Ellis in the death of Monica Sykes. The 25-year-old woman went missing in October of 2016. After months of organized searches, her remains were found in a deserted…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is claiming that a video the White House released depicting contact between a White House staffer and a CNN reporter wasn’t altered. Trump tells reporters that the video distributed by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was simply a “close up” and “was not doctored.” But a frame-by-frame…
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and JUSTIN PRITCHARD , Associated Press THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Neighbors of Ian David Long described the man who shot and killed 12 people at a country music bar as distant in public but combative with his mother inside the suburban Los Angeles home the two shared. One ruckus in April was…
By Glenn Fuselier (KTRS) St. Louis Three people, including a 13-year-old, have been arrested for a string of St. Louis carjackings. Police say two different groups were involved in the carjackings. Seventeen-year-old Deron Mitchell and 24-year-old Denadre Moore were arrested on charges of 1st Degree Robbery and Armed Criminal Action. More charges are pending, including some…