ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — Austin’s mayor is urging residents to remain vigilant, despite the death of a man suspected in this month’s string of bombings in Texas’ capital city. Mayor Steve Adler said Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show that: “We’re just really relieved and just incredibly thankful for this army of law enforcement that…
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s government now says 101 of the 110 schoolgirls abducted a month ago by Boko Haram are confirmed freed, and it indicates that the release is not over. An aide to President Muhammadu Buhari says on Twitter that the number “would be updated after the remaining ones have been documented.” Nigeria’s…
St. Louis County, MO (KTRS) An Endangered Person Advisory is in effect for a missing north county man. Police say 28-year-old Dajuan Delap hasn’t been seen since Sunday. He suffers from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and may be without his medications. . Delap is described as black, six-foot in height,190 lbs, with black hair, brown eyes, and…
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for the second time in four years on Tuesday to a Missouri inmate who has a rare medical condition that he says could cause blood-filled tumors to burst inside his head during the lethal injection. Russell Bucklew was…
By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — The suspect in a series of bombing attacks in Austin blew himself up early Wednesday as authorities closed in, a dramatic end to a weekslong siege of the Texas capital, where two were killed and four injured in a series of blasts. Authorities had zeroed in…
Wildwood, MO (KTRS) A wounded military veteran and his wife are getting a specially adapted SMART home thanks to the Gary Sinise Foundation. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday morning for Legrand and Carrie Strickland’s new home in Wildwood. The couple said they feel blessed to have this home. “This right here is a life…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT and JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — A teenager with a handgun shot a girl inside his Maryland high school Tuesday before he was fatally wounded during a confrontation with a school resource officer, a sheriff said. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the shooter took his own life or…
By PAUL J. WEBER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators pursuing a suspected serial bomber in the Texas capital shifted their attention Tuesday to a FedEx shipping center near San Antonio where a package exploded on a conveyor belt in the middle of the night and caused minor injuries to a worker.…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The NAACP is calling the four bombings that have hit Austin in less than three weeks acts of domestic terrorism. In a statement Monday, NAACP President Derrick Johnson said, “We are asking our membership to be vigilant and to pay attention to anything out of the ordinary in their communities and…
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Missouri Republican state Representative Cloria, who represented parts of St. Louis County, Brown has died. Her legislative assistant, Brenda Frank, on Monday said she had died at age 75 after battling cancer. Brown first won election to the Missouri House in 2010. She represented part of suburban St. Louis, including Mehlville. Brown was…