ST. LOUIS (AP) — At least one person has died on Missouri roads after the season’s first snowfall made driving treacherous. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that 85-year-old Charles Terbrock of Foristell was traveling on U.S. 61 near Wentzville when his car slid on an icy bridge, struck a guardrail and overturned. Several parts…
By WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The top leadership of the Miss America Organization, implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and sex lives, resigned on Saturday, with the outgoing president apologizing to a winner whose weight he ridiculed. The president, Josh…
Moscow Mills, MO (KTRS) The community is reaching out to help an O’Fallon, Missouri police officer and his family after their Moscow Mills home was destroyed in a fire. On Thursday night, the home of Montana Stephenson on Hammerstone Drive went up in flames. Stephenson told Fox 2 News that he saw the flames close to…
By ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California wildfire that has killed two people and seared its way through cities, towns and wilderness northwest of Los Angeles became the largest blaze ever officially recorded in California on Friday, authorities said. The Thomas fire took only 2 ½ weeks to burn its way into…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) Crimestoppers is offering a $15,000 reward for anyone with information about the murders of three women who hid in a car to escape their killers. St. Louis Police say the three women were shot to death as they tried to escape after burglars broke into their northside home in the 4200 block of…
By PHUONG LE, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Video from the cab of the Amtrak train that hurtled off the tracks in Washington state, killing three people and injuring dozens, shows that the engineer did not appear to be using a cellphone or any other personal electronic device just before the derailment, federal investigators said Friday.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted 10 petitions for clemency and denied 78 other requests. The Republican’s office announced the clemencies Friday. The petitions granted were for crimes including retail theft, burglary and drug possession. Some of the cases are decades old, and none of the people were sentenced to prison…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is in Florida celebrating the holidays and a much-needed political victory. Before departing for his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump signed the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul into law. He also put off a government shutdown by signing a temporary spending bill. The tax cut is a long-held Republican goal. Starting next…
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s getting ready to sign into law a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul package. It provides generous cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans and smaller ones for the middle class and low-income families. Trump tweeted that he’ll sign the law in the Oval Office…
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress narrowly passed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown, doing the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punting disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year. The measure passed the House on Thursday on a 231-188 vote…