By Nicole Sanders Click here for updates on this story WASHINGTON, Missouri (KMOV) — A couple was arrested after allegedly overdosing on drugs while their 4-week-old child was inside the backseat of the car in Franklin County, Mo. Friday, police said. Child endangerment charges have been filed against 25-year-old Haley Kester, of Montgomery City, and
Continue ReadingBy KMOV Staff Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Like a “nuclear incident” – that’s how a local doctor is describing his time in ICUs across the region, as he sees deaths back-to-back among COVID-19 patients. Early Sunday morning, Dr. Steven Brown went to Twitter saying “In 40 years, I
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By Tami Luhby, CNN April Stokes wants to go back to work. An optician by trade, Stokes was employed at Henry Ford OptimEyes until the coronavirus struck and school closed for her two young children. The family has been able to ride out the pandemic thanks to expanded federal unemployment benefits, which provided them with
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Sennet Click here for updates on this story ATHENS, Georgia (WGCL) — Police are learning more about the Sunday early morning shooting in Athens, which resulted from a fight, and they are now saying seven people are among the injured. All the victims went to the hospital in stable condition. Investigators have identified
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament has upheld the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that was declared last week amid migration pressure. The vote Monday came after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told parliament that the country faces a threat from Russia and Belarus. The state of emergency
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament has upheld the state of emergency along the border with Belarus that was declared last week amid migration pressure. The vote Monday came after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told parliament that the country faces a threat from Russia and Belarus. The state of emergency
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By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Aluminum prices have reached their highest level in more than a decade following a coup in Guinea, a major supplier of the main ore used to produce the metal. The price of aluminum futures on the London Metal Exchange rose as much as 1.8% to $2,775.50 per metric ton on
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By Matias Grez and Piers Edwards, CNN Jean-Pierre Adams, an ex-footballer who fell into a coma in 1982 following a botched knee operation, has died at the age of 73, his former clubs Nimes Olympique, Paris Saint-Germain and Nice said. Adams, an imposing central defender, started his career in Fontainebleu, where he helped the local
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GUTTENBERG, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa State Patrol says a motorcyclist was killed in the northeastern corner of Iowa when he was hit by a kayak that had fallen from a trailer. The Telegraph Herald reports that the crash happened Sunday morning on a county road in Allamakee County. Investigators say 75-year-old John Thein, of
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi has welcomed the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth as it makes its first Japanese port call. He says the involvement of European nations in the Indo-Pacific region is key to peace and stability as China’s military strength and influence grow. The
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LONDON (AP) — India has won the fourth test against England by 157 runs at the Oval to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. England collapsed to 210 all out on the fifth and final day. Set a record 368 to win, England went from 100-0 midway through the first session to getting
Continue Reading WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — The body of a Virginia hiker has been found in Montana’s Glacier National Park. Thirty-four-year-old Jennifer Lee Coleman of Richmond, Virginia, never returned from a solo hike from Logan Pass. She was last heard from via a text message on Aug. 30. A National Park Service statement says high winds
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer AMSTERDAM (AP) — Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas is leaving Mercedes at the end of the season and replacing the retiring Kimi Raikkonen at Alfa Romeo. The Alfa Romeo team says that Bottas has signed a multi-year deal. It paves the way for George Russell to replace Bottas
Continue Reading DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police are investigating the shooting death this weekend of an Illinois man on a Davenport street. The Quad-City Times reports that the shooting happened Sunday afternoon, when officers were called to an area along Nevada Avenue for reports of gunfire. Arriving officers found a man with gunshot wounds who was rushed
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German Foreign Ministry says Berlin has protested to Russia over attempts to steal data from lawmakers that it suspects may have been in preparation to spread disinformation before the upcoming German election. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse said Monday that a hacker outfit called Ghostwriter has
Continue Reading By GEIR MOULSON Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The German Foreign Ministry says Berlin has protested to Russia over attempts to steal data from lawmakers that it suspects may have been in preparation to spread disinformation before the upcoming German election. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse said Monday that a hacker outfit called Ghostwriter has
Continue Reading MONACO (AP) — A German modern pentathlon coach who struck a horse at the Olympics has been ordered to undergo training on animal welfare before she can work again at major competitions. TV footage from the Olympics last month showed Kim Raisner leaning over a fence to strike Saint Boy. The horse refused to jump
Continue Reading By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a summer of unrelenting crises, President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the page and refocus his presidency this fall around his core economic agenda. From the chaos in Afghanistan to the spread of the coronavirus to the destruction from Hurricane Ida, the summer served up
Continue Reading By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered at Athens Cathedral, where Greek composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis is lying in state for three days ahead of his burial on the southern island of Crete. Many people were holding flowers as they paid their final respects to a composer
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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As she held up her cell phone to take back-to-school selfies with the new school resource officers last week, the excitement of the first day swept through Liz Pray just as it had in previous years. But Pray, a school nurse, was nervous, too. “I don’t know what the school year
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