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MONETTE, Ark. (AP) — At least two people were killed when a reported tornado ripped through an Arkansas nursing home, and emergency crews in southern Illinois are also responding to reports of injuries at an Amazon warehouse after a roof collapsed. Craighead County, Arkansas, Judge Marvin Day told KAIT-TV that at least five others were

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Injuries reported after roof collapse at Amazon warehouse in southern Illinois.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 36-year-old St. Louis area woman was sentenced to two years of probation for leaving the scene of a crash that killed a 5-year-old girl. A judge on Friday found Zsakia Bostic guilty of fleeing a crash scene. Bostic, of Woodson Terrace, struck Demyhia Bates with her vehicle on June 15,

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Several local health departments in Missouri are stopping COVID-19 services after Attorney General Eric Schmitt threatened to take legal action. Since Thursday, more than a half-dozen mostly rural departments have said they will stop such services as investigating virus cases or issuing quarantine orders. Earlier this week, Schmitt notified local

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has set a March trial date for William Tisaby, the private investigator who led the invasion of privacy investigation of former Gov. Eric Greitens in 2018. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the trial will begin March 28. Greitens was accused of taking a compromising photo of a woman

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jim Fregosi Jr., a special assistant in the Kansas City Royals’ front office and a son of the longtime major league manager, has died. He was 57. The Royals say Fregosi died Thursday in Los Angeles. Fregosi spent 17 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies as an area scout, scouting cross-checker

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Christian Braun waded through hundreds of camping students in the foyer of Allen Fieldhouse, trying to navigate his way from the locker room to the court for a final shootaround before Kansas took on UTEP down the road in Kansas City. It was Monday afternoon.

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s office appointed four new members to a state board that oversees funeral homes amid complaints that the previous members had beefed up inspections too much after one crematory was found in such disrepair that body fluids were leaking onto the floor. In their first meeting in

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A jury has convicted a woman of shooting and killing her husband at his snake-breeding business in Missouri. The jury in Boone County on Thursday found Lynlee Renick guilty of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of her husband, Benjamin Renick, in June 2017 at his business in

ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of a young football player who became trapped in the elevator of an Atlanta high-rise and was crushed to death is suing several property and elevator companies. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Jessica Moore says the defendants failed to inspect the elevator that malfunctioned, killing her 18-year-old son Jaumarcus McFarland

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County has rescinded its mask mandate, weeks after a Missouri judge barred local health departments from issuing them. The county’s decision was announced Thursday during a court hearing in a lawsuit that Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed in July in response to a previous mask mandate. In

HERMITAGE, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that a western Missouri deputy shot and killed a woman accused of attacking another person with a knife. Springfield television station KYTV reports that the deadly encounter happened Wednesday morning in the town of Hermitage. The patrol says Hickory County sheriff’s deputies were called around

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer Newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises has rejected a takeover offer from the Alden Global Capital hedge fund that is one of the largest newspaper owners in the country with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs. Lee said Thursday that its board unanimously rejected Alden’s offer to buy the

In a story published December 8, 2021, about Canadian Pacific’s acquisition of Kansas City Southern railroad, The Associated Press erroneously reported executives at the two railroads don’t expect the deal to be approved. The CEO’s of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern have both said they don’t expect any problems getting the deal approved by