JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri Republican lawmaker is taking the debate on gun rights to cities with a proposal to allow firearms on buses and trains. The measure comes months after voters approved a state constitutional amendment declaring the right to bear arms is “unalienable” and that laws restricting gun rights are subject…
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – An Alton man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after being convicted in the shooting death of his cousin. Madison Circuit Judge Richard Tognarelli handed down the sentenced against 24-year-old Damond Riddlespriger on Tuesday following his January conviction on a charge of first-degree murder. Authorities say Riddlespriger shot 22-year-old…
AMAZONIA, Mo. (AP) – Twenty years after cleanup work wrapped up on a former northwest Missouri landfill, most people have either forgotten the site or never knew it existed. The St. Joseph News-Press reports that Wheeling Disposal began operating a landfill in the 1970s in a rural area near Amazonia. Before its closure in 1986,…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Beyond the boom of Israeli airstrikes and the stream of rockets fired from Gaza, Israel and Hamas are also battling to control the message emanating from this latest Israeli-Palestinian conflagration. Using videos, Twitter, text messages, leaflets and phone calls, both sides have attempted to direct the tone of the fighting — for…
