BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A former employee of a southwestern Missouri paddlewheel tourist boat alleges in a lawsuit that he suffered post-traumatic stress after trying to save victims of a fatal duck boat accident. The Springfield News-Leader reports that Gregory Harris filed suit Monday against Ride the Ducks International, Ripley Entertainment and the boat’s captain.…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — As jurors weigh Paul Manafort’s fate in a sprawling financial fraud case, the former Trump campaign chairman still has another trial looming in the nation’s capital — and prosecutors there have a whole new set of charges and a huge volume of evidence. The trial…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An ethics panel says there’s reason to believe that former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens broke the law over how his campaign reported a donor list it obtained from a charity he founded. But the Missouri Ethics Commission director in a Friday letter wrote that the local prosecutor won’t press charges.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) — A man is dead after a police standoff at a north St. Louis motel. Police say the man barricaded himself inside the First Western Inn on East Grand and North Broadway at just before 9 a.m. Friday as officers tried to arrest him. Officers heard a shot ring out and…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, STEPHEN BRAUN and JEFF HORWITZ , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The judge in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial said Friday he has received threats and he fears for the “peace and safety” of the jurors deciding the fate of the former Trump campaign chairman. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Police have a north St. Louis motel surrounded where a man is barricaded in his room. Around 8:45 a.m. Friday, a call went out for an officer in need of aid at the First Western Inn at East Grand and North Broadway. Shots were reportedly fired. There’s no indication of any officers being injured.…
By ROBERT BURNS , AP National Security Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Western-backed Afghan defenses will not break under the weight of Taliban violence in advance of scheduled parliamentary elections in October, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. In his most detailed comments on the Taliban’s assault on the eastern city of Ghazni since it began…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two people are being treated for injuries after entering a neighbor’s burning home to rescue a child in south St. Louis. The St. Louis Fire Department says a blaze broke out Thursday afternoon at a home in the 1400 block of Graham. The department says two neighbors rescued a child and…
NEW YORK (AP) — Aretha Franklin’s music quickly climbed the iTunes’ charts following her death on Thursday. Her “30 Greatest Hits” album hit the No. 1 spot, replacing Nicki Minaj’s new album, while “Respect” topped the songs’ charts. More songs from Franklin, including “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” ”Think,” ”Chain of Fools”…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s finance chief tried to reassure thousands of international investors on a conference call Thursday, in which he pledged to fix the economic troubles that have seen the country spiral into a currency crisis. The national currency recovered somewhat from record lows hit earlier this week, a day after Qatar pledged…