By KEN THOMAS and PAUL WISEMAN , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and European leaders pulled back from the brink of a trade war over autos Wednesday and agreed to open talks to tear down trade barriers between the United States and the European Union. But the agreement was vague, the coming…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Federal lawmakers are demanding that Puerto Rico quickly privatize its bankrupt power company in a bid to end its ongoing turmoil and allow others to provide stable electricity post-Hurricane Maria. Frustration grew as consultants and local and federal officials testified during Wednesday’s hearing on the management crisis at Puerto…
Centreville, IL (KTRS) Police are investigating after a fisherman made a grisly discovery at a metro-east lake. Authorities say the 71-year-old man was fishing at Frank Holten State Park around 8 p.m. Tuesday when he hooked a body with his line in the lake. Police were then called to the scene. Police say the victim is…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Funerals have been set for five more members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake last week. A church spokeswoman says services will be held Saturday at Eastern Star Church in Indianapolis for 70-year-old Horace Coleman; his 69-year-old wife, Belinda Coleman; 76-year-old…
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN LEMIRE , Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Two months before the 2016 election, Donald Trump and his former lawyer discussed plans to pay for a former Playboy model’s story of alleged an affair, according to a secretly recorded tape of the conversation released amid an escalating feud between the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is canceled for missing north county teen. In a statement issued by the St. Louis County Police Department just hours ago, 13-year-old Jashari Johnson was quote “located safe.” Johnson went missing Sunday night after leaving a note at her residence stating she was contemplating suicide and would…
St. Charles, MO (KTRS) A Florissant man is charged in connection with a shooting on Tuesday in Wentzville. According to the St. Charles County Police Department, 40-year-old Carl J. Townsend allegedly fired several rounds from a .45 caliber pistol toward a 38-year-old man who was assisting one of his tenants with moving. Townsend had been…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A paroled robber who allegedly stabbed to death an 18-year-old woman in an unprovoked attack at a California train station is mentally ill and failed to receive proper treatment, his family said Tuesday. John Cowell, 27, was arrested Monday night on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train in the San Francisco…
ATLANTA (AP) — The state lawmaker who exposed himself and yelled racial slurs on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series will resign, according to a spokesman for Georgia House Speaker David Ralston. Rep. Jason Spencer will step down at the end of the month, spokesman Kaleb McMichen told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late Tuesday. In Sunday…
By SUMMER BALLENTINE , Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday announced she wants to enshrine into law federal recommendations to improve duck boat safety such as getting rid of canopies that can trap passengers if the vehicles sink, as happened on a Missouri lake last week when…