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Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson. Saturday update. Good afternoon and evening. I hope you have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend! The weather will be unsettled today. We are in drought. We need this rain. It may interrupt some of your outdoor activities. Remember, when thunder roars head indoors!...
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NEWS
6th Annual Missouri Vietnam Wall Run announced
The 6th Annual Missouri Vietnam Wall Run has been scheduled for Friday & Saturday, September 20-21, 2024 in celebration of National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Five Ride Routes to the State...
Goldschmidt and Burleson go deep to back Mikolas as Cardinals blank Nationals 6-0
By BYRON KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt and Alec Burleson homered, Miles Mikolas pitched into the seventh inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals...
No one injured in Washington, MO Amtrak trail derailment
An Amtrak train was derailed just after 5 pm on Monday (July 8th) after a tree fell onto the tracks near Washington, MO. Show Me Live first reported the news live on air while covering the severe...
Contreras homers again with three RBIs to help Cardinals beat Nationals 8-3
By BYRON KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Willson Contreras hit his second homer of the series and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Washington Nationals 8-3 on Sunday. Contreras hit a...
Contreras hits tying homer in 9th, Cardinals complete rally in 11th, beat Nationals 7-6
By BYRON KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Willson Contreras hit a tying homer in the ninth inning, Masyn Winn scored the go-ahead run on a passed ball in the 11th, and the St. Louis Cardinals...
Jefferson County man at large
Detectives from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office & Eureka Police Department are actively seeking Nicholas Combs, age 39. Mr. Combs is 6 feet tall and weighs 175 pounds. On June 28th,...
Missouri governor says new public aid plan in the works for Chiefs, Royals stadiums
By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday that he expects the state to put together an aid plan by the end of the year to try to keep the...
Pages, Burleson deliver RBI hits in the 10th as St. Louis beats Pittsburgh 3-2
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pedro Pages doubled home pinch runner Michael Siani and then scored on Alec Burleson's RBI single as the the St. Louis Cardinals edged the...
Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago wins his first men’s title at annual Nathan’s hot dog eating contest.
By SUSAN HAIGH and CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago gobbled down 58 hot dogs to win his first men's title Thursday at the annual Nathan's Famous Fourth...
Tesla sales fall for second straight quarter despite price cuts, but decline not as bad as expected
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Tesla's global sales fell for the second straight quarter despite price cuts and low-interest financing offers, another sign of weakening demand for the...
NEWS FROM AROUND MISSOURI
Health officials push to get schoolchildren vaccinated as more US parents opt out
By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer When Idaho had a rare measles outbreak a few months ago, health officials scrambled to keep it from spreading. In the end, 10 people, all in one family, were infected, all unvaccinated. This time, the state was lucky, said the region’s...
Cat-owner duo in Ohio shares amputee journey while helping others through animal therapy
By PATRICK ORSAGOS Associated Press TROY, Ohio (AP) — Each morning when she wakes up, Juanita Mengel removes the silicone liner of her prosthetic leg out from under a heated blanket so that the metal parts of the artificial limb don't feel as cold on her skin when she...
More US auto buyers are turning to hybrids as sales of electric vehicles slow
By TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — America’s automakers have staked their futures on the notion that electric vehicles will dominate sales in the coming years, spurred by buyers determined to reduce carbon emissions and save on fuel. But so far, while EV...
Were your holiday deliveries stolen? What to know about porch piracy and what you can do about it
By HALELUYA HADERO AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — You found the perfect holiday gift online. You ordered it. A notification arrived on your phone, showing the package had arrived. But when you open your doors, the parcel is nowhere to be found. If this has...
Ready, set, travel: The holiday rush to the airports and highways is underway
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer It's beginning to look a lot like a hectic holiday travel season, but it might go relatively smoothly if the weather cooperates. Travel over Christmas and New Year's tends to spread out over many days, so the peaks in the U.S. are...
WHO declares new JN.1 COVID strain a “variant of interest.” Here’s what that means.
UNITED STATES (NewsFirst) --- The World Health Organization announced Tuesday it would step up its classification of the new COVID-19 variant JN.1 to a standalone "variant of interest," after tracking the strain's rapid ascent around the world. Health officials have...
Apple to halt sales of its newest watches in US over patent dispute
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer If two of the latest Apple Watches are on your holiday shopping list, don't dawdle for much longer because the devices won't be available to buy in the U.S. later this week if the White House doesn't intervene in an...
America’s animal shelters are overcrowded with pets from families facing economic and housing woes
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press MENANDS, N.Y. (AP) — Kaine is a big, buoyant dog looking for a home. But lately, he's spending a lot of time at the office. Animal shelters around the U.S. are bursting at the seams amid the rising cost of living, so the gray and white...
Abuse in the machine: Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children
By MATT O'BRIEN and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw...
NATIONAL NEWS
Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation
By BARBARA ORTUTAY and HALELUYA HADERO Associated Press Sexual predators. Addictive features....
Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after Maui's wildfires killed scores of...
Ex-NBA star Rajon Rondo arrested in Indiana on misdemeanor gun, drug charges, police say
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Indiana State Police arrested two-time NBA champion Rajon Rondo on Sunday...
Mostly calm weather through Saturday.
Posted by Meteorologist Beau Dodson It has been a busy three weeks of weather. Arctic outbreaks...
Elon Musk cannot keep Tesla pay package worth more than $55 billion, judge rules
By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — Elon Musk is not entitled to landmark...
Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as the election board says it lacks power to remove him over Jan. 6
By SOPHIA TAREEN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ election board...