WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship (all times local): 9:35 a.m. A person familiar with internal White House debate says the topic of birthright citizenship has come up various times over at least the last year. President Donald Trump tells “Axios on HBO” he wants to end…
By NINIEK KARMINI and STEPHEN WRIGHT , Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Divers searched Tuesday for victims of the Lion Air plane crash in Indonesia that killed 189 people and high-tech equipment was deployed to find its data recorders as reports emerged of problems on the jet’s previous flight that had terrified passengers. Search and…
A young man looses his life in a Jefferson County car accident Yesterday. The Missouri Highway Patrol says 26-year-old Kolvy B. Smith of Desloge was on Route A near Burning Tree Lane when he crossed the center lane and hit another vehicle head-on. Smith was pronounced dead on the scene the other driver received serious…
By ROBERT BURNS, COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A week out from the midterm elections, the Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border this week in an extraordinary military operation to stop Central American migrants traveling north in two caravans that were…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mother of a missing 4-year-old Missouri boy is asking anyone with information to come forward. Darnell Gray’s mother made a brief statement at a news conference Monday asking for the public’s help. Her name was not released. Darnell was last seen Wednesday night at a Jefferson City apartment where…
By ALLEN G. BREED, MARK SCOLFORO and MARYCLAIRE DALE , Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — The man charged in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was brought into court in a wheelchair Monday, as some members of the Jewish community and others objected to President Donald Trump’s planned visit, accusing him of contributing to a toxic political…
Chesterfield, MO (KTRS) Senators Lindsey Graham and Cory Gardner were in town Monday to campaign for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. The Republican lawmakers spoke to a crowd of about 250 supporters at the Double Tree Chesterfield Hotel in Chesterfield. Graham of South Carolina said the stakes are high. “If we win here, it will…
By CURT ANDERSON , AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) — Bomb squads were called to a post office in Atlanta on Monday about a suspicious parcel sent to CNN, just hours before a court hearing for a Florida man accused of sending packages containing explosive material to prominent Democrats. The FBI did not identify to…
A retired 67 year old St. Louis Police Sergeant has been shot and killed this morning in a South St. Louis shootout with a gunman. The victim, whose name has not been released, was rushed to a hospital where he died. Police were called to Lackland Avenue south of Tower Grove Park at around 7:30…
By CATHERINE LUCEY , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday accused the media of being “the true Enemy of the People” in the wake of a mass shooting and a mail bomb plot. Trump tweeted: “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of…