By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students at a Florida high school where 17 of their classmates and staff members were killed returned Sunday to gather their belongings thrown down in panic during the school shooting nearly two weeks ago. Thousands of students joined their parents in walking past the three-story building at…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The body of the Rev. Billy Graham has reached the library bearing his name, ending a journey which took him down North Carolina roads filled with mourners paying their final respects. The procession reached the Billy Graham Library literally four hours after it left the training center to head for Charlotte,…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say at least two people have died as a strong storm system that included possible tornadoes pushed its way eastward through the central United States, leaving demolished homes, damaged vehicles and uprooted trees in its wake. A man in northeast Arkansas and a woman in south central Kentucky both were killed…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Zoo is mourning the loss of one of their young elephants. Zoo officials say Kenzi, a six-year-old Asian elephant calf died on Saturday after being diagnosed with elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus. EEHV is a viral infection shown to be fatal to elephants. The St. Louis Zoo posted the following Facebook message…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens has signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency in anticipation of storms and flooding in parts southern Missouri. Greitens signed the order Saturday as the National Weather Service issued a flood warnings and watches for much of southeastern Missouri. The order activates the resources of…
BERKELEY, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area utility worker hit by a stray bullet from a shooting a half block away has died. Berkeley police say 55-year-old Frank Langston, of Dellwood, died Friday. An employee of Raineri Ready Mix, Langston was delivering materials to a St. Louis sewer district project when he was hit by…
By MATT SEDENSKY and TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The progression has become numbingly repetitive — mass bloodshed unleashed by a gunman, followed by the stories of the fallen, the funerals, the mourning, the talking heads and the calls for change that dwindle into nothingness. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,…
BELLAFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) —Three people are dead in a suspected murder-suicide in Bellefontaine Neighbors. Investigators say police responded to a call at the home on Hoyt Drive late Thursday night and found a woman and her teenaged son shot to death. Police say the suspected caller was also found dead from an apparent self-inflicted…
By SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman close to the man charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school warned the FBI in chilling detail that he had a growing collection of guns and a temper so uncontrollable she worried about him “getting into a school and just shooting the place…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Several major road projects are on the horizion for the region. The Missouri Department of Transportation announced that some of this work will begin next month and will have a significant impact of daily travel. “We have several avenues where drivers can get information about upcoming lane closures and impact in…