(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon will skip several planned events at the Missouri State Fair to return to Ferguson after another night of conflict between protesters and… Read more »
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Silver Dollar City announces big expansion
(BRANSON, Mo., AP) — Silver Dollar City in Branson is planning an $8 million expansion that will include six new rides. Officials with the theme park announced Wednesday the four-acre… Read more »
ND residents joining Missouri River flood lawsuit
By BLAKE NICHOLSON (BISMARCK, N.D., AP) — Some North Dakota residents have joined landowners from five other states in a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over Missouri… Read more »
Obama appeals for ‘peace and calm’ in Ferguson
By JULIE PACE (EDGARTOWN, Mass., AP) — Appealing for “peace and calm,” President Barack Obama on Thursday said there is no excuse for excessive use of force by police in… Read more »
Turkish citizen pleads guilty in drug fraud case
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A Turkish citizen has pleaded guilty in St. Louis to smuggling misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the United States. The U.S. Attorney’s office said… Read more »
Prosecutor released from Ferguson lawsuit
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A judge has dismissed former Boone County prosecutor Kevin Crane from a $100 million civil rights lawsuit filed by a man whose murder conviction was vacated…. Read more »
Ferguson seeks answers after fatal police shooting
By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — Nights of unrest have vied with calls for calm in a St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teenager was killed by… Read more »
AP video journalist, translator killed in Gaza
(BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip, AP) — An Associated Press video journalist and a freelance Palestinian translator assisting him were killed in an ordnance explosion Wednesday while working on an assignment… Read more »
Family of US man held in NKorea to make statement
By AMANDA LEE MYERS (CINCINNATI, AP) — The wife and three children of an American man charged with “anti-state” crimes in North Korea are planning to attend a news conference… Read more »
Missouri shooting victim called quiet, respectful
By DAVID A. LIEB (FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — Michael Brown Sr. stood alone in the center of the narrow street where the blood of his namesake son still stained the… Read more »