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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether a new state law forbidding local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws is constitutional. A lower court judge rejected the challenge to the law brought by St. Louis city and county and Kansas City officials last August, but that…
SPANISH LAKE, Mo. (AP) — Two young girls were shot and injured in a St. Louis suburb Sunday morning after police say one of them found a gun in the home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis County police said officers were called to a home in Spanish Lake around 11:30 a.m. Sunday…
CHICAGO (AP) — A major winter storm has left more than 200,000 homes and businesses without power across the U.S. The multiday storm dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest and caused a tornado in Alabama that killed one person and critically injured three others. Power companies have struggled to…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois governor has presented an annual spending plan not amid the usual pomp but to a mostly empty chamber during an onslaught of winter weather in Illinois. With inflation soaring, Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered a budget blueprint Wednesday with plans to suspend or offer rebates for taxes on groceries, gasoline…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis closed for several hours Tuesday after the historically Black school received a bomb threat. The university said in a news release that the campus reopened Tuesday afternoon after an investigation by St. Louis police and the FBI. A search of the campus turned up nothing…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the middle section of the United States as airlines canceled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses. The blast of frigid weather, which…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The chief medical examiner who ruled George Floyd’s death a homicide will return to the stand Tuesday at the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating Floyd’s civil rights. Prosecutors say Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao deprived Floyd of his rights when they failed…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois governor’s election-year plan to offer consumers some tax relief from some of the biggest pains in the pocketbook. Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to offer inflation relief in his budget proposal scheduled for Wednesday, although he won’t address a joint session of the General Assembly. House and Senate leaders canceled…
CONROE, Texas (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House. During a rally Saturday night in Texas, Trump said if he runs again for president and wins, he will treat…
BOSTON (AP) — More than 2 feet of snow has fallen in some areas of the northeastern U.S. amid a fierce winter storm. Wind gusts in Saturday’s nor’easter surpassed 70 mph in a few spots in Massachusetts. The wind scoured the ground bare in some places and piled the snow into huge drifts in others.…