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CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been charged with trying to become a pimp for someone he believed was a woman who would work as his prostitute. Prosecutors charged Eric Niles, 36, of Columbia, Missouri, earlier this month with one count of attempted sex trafficking in the case. Authorities say Niles wanted to…
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Engineers have partially refloated the container ship that is wedged across the Suez Canal. But the massive ship is still blocking traffic and there are no details about when it might be fully freed. The canal services firm says the ship was partially refloated after tugboats pushed and pulled while the…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Court records say an officer at a St. Louis jail that has been the scene of recent riot and other unrest opened a cell door for two inmates who beat up another inmate. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the guard, 38-year-old Demeria Thomas, and the inmates, 39-year-old Antonio Holt, and…
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Authorities are preparing to make new attempts to free a giant container vessel stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fifth day and reopen a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping. Plans are in the works to pump water from interior spaces of the vessel, and two more tugs should arrive…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois public health officials have approved universal COVID-19 vaccination in parts of the state where demand for the shots has waned even while the number of cases and hospitalizations continues to climb. Newly reported cases topped 3,000 Friday for the first time in seven weeks. Hospitalizations due to the virus have…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is leaving the door open to backing fundamental changes in Senate procedure to muscle key parts of his agenda past Republican opposition. In his first formal news conference as president, Biden at first backed a modification — but not elimination — of the filibuster, which stands in the way…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House has approved election law changes that include requiring residents to show photo IDs before voting. The measure also would prohibit counting absentee ballots until all Election Day ballots are collected, and bars election law changes within six months of a presidential election. All but one Republican House…
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners gathered Wednesday night at a candlelight vigil to remember the 10 people gunned down at a supermarket in a Colorado college town. Meanwhile, the 21-year-old man suspected of carrying out the rampage prepared to make his first court appearance Thursday. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa has been jailed for…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are trying to undo new rules that limit when judges can impose bail. The GOP-led House in a Wednesday voice vote advanced a bill that would make public safety the top priority in setting bail. Judges already must consider whether it’s safe to let defendants free while they…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Segal, the banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966′s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and starred in the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs,” has died. Segal’s wife Sonia Segal said in a statement that he died Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California, of complications from bypass surgery.…