Ste. Genevieve, MO (KTRS) The Ste. Genevieve National Historic Park is now part of the National Park Service, thanks to legislation spearheaded by Missouri Senator Roy Blunt. Blunt was in Ste. Genevieve with U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to participate in a round table discussion…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s national security adviser is echoing the combative warning to Iran against deploying any more threatening language toward the U.S. Ambassador John Bolton says he’s spoken with Trump over the last several days and, “President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it is planning to raise a duck boat that sank in a southern Missouri lake during powerful winds, killing 17 people. The work to recover the Ride the Ducks boat from Table Rock Lake is scheduled to begin 9 a.m. Monday. The boat went down Thursday…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of drama, back tracking, a double negative and blistering statements from allies about his attitude toward Russian election interference, President Donald Trump on Sunday was back to referring to “a big hoax.” Trump spent days trying to reassure the country that he accepts that the longtime foe interfered in…
TORONTO (AP) — A man firing a handgun into restaurants and cafes as he walked along a Toronto street shot 14 people, killing one of them, before dying after an exchange of gunfire with police late Sunday, police said. Police Chief Mark Saunders said the shooting in the city’s Greektown neighborhood was not random and…
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — Around 200 people have attended a community memorial service in Branson for the 17 people killed when a duck boat sand in a Missouri Lake. The Joplin Globe reports a church bell chimed 17 times Sunday at Williams Chapel at College of the Ozarks to honor the victims. The boat sank…
By MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A feud between a man and his grandmother over his girlfriend staying at the grandmother’s home exploded into violence that ultimately led to him taking dozens of people hostage inside a Los Angeles supermarket, a relative said Sunday. Investigators believe Gene Evin Atkins, 28, shot…
Grafton, IL (KTRS) A husband and wife are hospitalized after a boat explosion is Grafton. Authorities say the explosion happened early Saturday night on the Mississippi River as the leisure boat was coming in to dock. The operator of the boat was reportedly having mechanical issues. The victims were thrown into the water when the…
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police said they were trying to determine what prompted a man to shoot his grandmother and wound another woman before he crashed his car and ran into a busy supermarket, where he held dozens of people hostage in a tense standoff with…
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria’s lengthy civil war. Jordan confirmed that 800 Syrian citizens have entered its territory to be resettled in Western…