Jim Salter, Associated Press

St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated Bush, the second time this year that a Democratic incumbent has been ousted amid deep divisions over the war in Gaza.

Orville Allen’s liver was successfully transplanted into a 72-year-old woman.

The storm brought traffic to a standstill along Interstate 70 and unleashed possible tornadoes as meteorologists urged residents to stay indoors.

The shooting at last month’s Kansas City Chiefs parade and rally left one person dead and roughly two dozen injured.

For the first time since 1989, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning through Saturday for Southern California mountains.

Experts agree peer pressure, and in some cases fear of retribution, is on the minds of officers who fail to stop colleagues from bad actions.

When several hundred social-justice demonstrators marched past their home in June 2020, the couple waved weapons at them. They claimed the protesters were trespassing and that they feared for their safety.

The COVID Tracking Project said that it has “identified five other states with anomalies in their hospitalization figures” that could be tied to the HHS reporting problem.

Officials closed a major interstate highway south of St. Louis on Thursday morning amid historic flooding that has already left at least 20 people dead.

The dangers from a rare winter flood did not let up Wednesday, with officials keeping watch on 19 vulnerable levees along the Mississippi River and its tributaries as well as several smaller streams and lakes throughout Missouri and parts of Illinois.

Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a protest that stretched into early Tuesday marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, although there was no repeat of the violence that scarred weekend demonstrations.

The shots were fired as protesters had gathered following the resignation of Ferguson's embattled Police Chief Thomas Jackson on Wednesday.

Within minutes of the announcement by St. Louis County's top prosecutor, crowds began pouring into Ferguson streets to protest the decision. Some taunted police, shattered windows and vandalized cars. Several gunshots were also heard. Officers used tear gas to disperse the gatherings.

Twisters roared through the heartland in the early morning darkness Wednesday, flattening entire blocks of homes in Illinois and Kansas and killing at least nine people. Winds ripped through the country music resort city of Branson, Mo., damaging famous theaters.