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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old boy was shot in the back in north St. Louis. Police say a 20-year-old shot into a home, striking the boy, on Friday after an argument with his girlfriend. The man fled and the boy was rushed to a hospital. Police did not have an update on

Ste. Genevieve County, Mo. (AP) — Volunteers have removed 3.5 tons of garbage from a sinkhole cave in southeast Missouri in a single day. The Missouri Department of Conservation said Friday the focus of the recent project was an area of Ste. Genevieve County where dissolving bedrock has formed sinkholes, springs and caves. Volunteer cavers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Andy Beshear says all of the people reported missing in Kentucky after tornadoes swept through the state last weekend have been accounted for. Beshear hailed the report by state emergency management officials and said he hoped it means no more people in Kentucky will be found dead from the storm.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials have confirmed that a fifth person in the state has died from storms that spurred devastating tornadoes across the region last weekend. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency says the additional death occurred in Lake County, where two other storm deaths also occurred. The agency says the remaining fatalities were

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Many hospitals across the country are struggling to cope with burnout among doctors, nurses and other workers. Already buffeted by a crush of patients from the ongoing surge of the coronavirus’s delta variant, they’re now bracing for the fallout of another highly transmissible mutation. Ohio has become

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Court documents say a 19-year-old who is charged with fatally shooting his 15-year-old friend had been playing with a pink gun before the weapon went off at an Independence home. Elijah Soliz was charged Friday with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the Dec. 11 shooting. No attorney is

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to back-to-back life prison terms for fatally stabbing a Missouri Air National Guard member during a road rage confrontation in suburban Kansas City. Sixty-one-year-old Nicholas Webb, of Pleasant Hill, was sentenced Friday for the death of 23-year-old Cody Harter, of St. Joseph. A jury convicted

By JOHN HANNA and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press A tornado outbreak that claimed at least 92 lives has left friends and relatives of the victims reeling and clinging to memories. Across multiple states, the victims of last weekend’s twisters included grandmothers, veterans and, in some cases, multiple members of a single family. On one street

By JOE HARRIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice, Charlie Lindgren made 26 saves and the St. Louis Blues capped a home-and-home sweep against the Dallas Stars with a 4-1 win. Lindgren improved to 5-0 since taking over in net for the injury-ravaged Blues. Logan Brown scored, Ivan Barbashev added an

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Shepherd quarterback Tyson Bagent has been named the winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy, given to the top player in Division II. Bagent completed 64% of his passes for 5,000 yards and 53 touchdowns in leading Shepherd to a 13-2 record. The Rams advanced to the Division II semifinals before losing

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — An increase in COVID-19 cases has hospitals in Kansas and Missouri delaying surgeries, turning away transfers, holding patients in emergency rooms while they wait for beds to open up and desperately trying to hire traveling nurses. Dr. Steve Stites, chief medical officer for the University of

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s death toll from a line of tornadoes that tore through the state has increased to 77. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Friday that the most recent death was recorded in Lyon County. As of Friday, the state was down to just one missing person, in Hopkins County. Beshear says more

SUDHIN THANAWALA A week after a deadly tornado outbreak, families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll. Authorities on Thursday found the body of a Kentucky teenager who had been missing. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week, and family

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer A white Christmas is going from reality to more of a dream for chunks of the United States. Analysis of 40 years worth of United States snow measurements shows less of the country now has snow on the ground on Christmas than it did in the 1980s. It’s especially

SUDHIN THANAWALA A week after a deadly tornado outbreak, families of the victims are still processing the terrible toll. Authorities on Thursday found the body of a Kentucky teenager who had been missing. Nyssa Brown was the seventh member of her family to die in the tornado that hit Bowling Green last week, and family