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ST. LOUIS – One woman arrested in a Cherokee Street weekend shooting is no longer in jail. Police say she has been released after the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office refused to issue charges. Police arrested Amber Booker, 33, in the investigation into a shooting Saturday evening as a Cinco de Mayo festival was wrapping up for the day. Photos shared by police Monday in connection with the case showed one woman, suspected to be Booker, and another man holding weapons. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department tells FOX 2 that the circuit attorney’s office refused all charges, citing a...

Speaking for the first time on Tuesday, St. Croix Sheriff Scott Knudson talked about the grief and pain that has followed the killing of Deputy Kaitie Leising. Leising was shot in the line of duty Saturday night as she investigated a DWI crash. Tuesday, the sheriff said that his department and the community are struggling. The sheriff is heartbroken but also angry that there has been another member of law enforcement killed in the line of duty.

President Biden warned Wednesday that if the United States defaulted on its debt, it would spell trouble internationally, after his latest meeting with congressional leaders to raise the country’s borrowing limit hardly made a dent in the debate. The president, during remarks in Valhalla, N.Y., said that world leaders are wondering about the looming risk of a default. “They all are looking at me, ‘are you guys serious?’” Biden said, referencing world leaders. “Because, if we default on our debt, the whole world is in trouble.”

A trans predator was jailed for nine years today for raping a 'vulnerable' friend with 'her penis' - just weeks after being released from prison for child sex offences. Lexi-Rose Crawford, 24, began identifying as a woman after being released on licence from a four-year jail term imposed for having sex with an underage girl she met online. A jury heard how she went on to attack the latest victim in her own home, after taking a PlayStation to the address so they could play computer games. The defendant, who was referred to as 'Miss' throughout her March trial, was...

@RepThomasMassie How did Joe Biden force millions of people to take vaccines? He threatened to disqualify them from employment, using existing federal bureaucracies like OSHA, CMS and federal contracting authority. I guarantee he would use E-Verify to do the same if it were federally mandated.

Opinion Transgender Ideology Isn't About Dignity. It's Warmed Over Misogyny | Opinion Jenny Holland , author of the Saving Culture Substack newsletter On 5/10/23 at 3:45 PM EDT Current Time 0:10 Dylan Mulvaney Slams Backlash Over Her Transition—'I'm Not Some Monster' Share Twenty years ago, my father, Irish author Jack Holland, wrote a book called Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice. It's a sweeping look at how hatred and fear of women has been a part of nearly every society in human history. The need to control women's sexuality, women's voices and women's power have been a feature of societies from...

Police raised concerns, so lawmakers moved forward with a less-restrictive proposal — and now that version of the bill is likely to be defeated CONCORD, N.H. — An effort to restrict the use of no-knock warrants in New Hampshire is likely to fail this week, after a committee advised the full Senate to reject the proposal despite its bipartisan popularity in the House. The original version of House Bill 135 had called for a complete ban on no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter a property without knocking and announcing their presence in advance. But lawmakers watered down their proposal...

— Stanford says masks are no longer mandatory, but are recommendedParticipants in a long COVID clinical trial at Stanford University in California have raised concerns that some investigators there are not wearing masks during clinic visits, putting them at risk. The issue was first highlighted in a Reddit post on r/covidlonghaulersopens in a new tab or window, where an anonymous poster said he or she and their wife walked out and quit the study last week because "researchers running the long COVID Paxlovid study have stopped masking while tending to long COVID participants." That commenter, who has not returned a...

A ban on almost all no-knock warrants is inching towards the Governor Tim Walz's desk with a push from the family of a man killed during the service of one. Legislators got deep into details Tuesday with law enforcement veterans hoping to fine tune the ban on no-knock warrants. But they also heard the emotional side of the story from Amir Locke’s father. Minneapolis police were not looking for Amir Locke when they served a no-knock warrant at the home where he was sleeping in February 2022.

A new solution, known as E-MOTIVE, could provide a major breakthrough in reducing deaths from childbirth-related bleeding, according to a landmark study. Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH)—defined as the loss of more than 500 mL of blood within 24 hours after birth—is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. The study, which involved more than 200,000 women in four countries, found that objectively measuring blood loss using a simple, low-cost collection device called a "drape" and bundling together WHO-recommended treatments—rather than offering them sequentially—resulted in dramatic improvements in outcomes for women. Severe bleeding—when a woman loses more than a liter of blood...

Across the nation, policies were formed following America’s confrontation with racism in the summer of 2020. A case that sparked protests and calls for change then is the force behind a proposal getting ready for a vote now at the Colorado Capitol. Lawmakers and law enforcement have been working on a policy regarding no-knock warrants for years. Their compromise is now steps away from the governor’s desk.

San Francisco supervisor Dean Preston (Democratic Socialist) announced Tuesday that he is calling for legislation to limit security guards’ ability to use to guns to protect property. Preston announced the legislative push on Twitter, where he said, “Today at the board of supervisors I will be calling for legislation to specifically prohibit security guards from drawing their weapons to protect property.” He added, “Human life is more important than property. We need to change our local law so that security guards cannot unholster their weapons just to protect property.”

Army photo Contractors begin building the gate signs for the soon-to-be Fort Cavazos. Once completed, the signs were covered up until the official ceremony this Tuesday redesignating Fort Hood to Fort Cavazos. Tuesday is the day. In a ceremony on Fort Hood at 9 a.m., III Corps and garrison leadership will formally present Fort Cavazos to the world and officially retire the designation named for a Confederate general. While many opposed the name change — whether for historical reasons or for the costs implied with the change — the riots caused around the nation by the May 2020 death of...

The stock of Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch has been downgraded by analysts at HSBC who say the brand is in the midst of a “crisis” following the outcry over its ties to transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Carlos Laboy, a managing director at HSBC’s global beverage sector, downgraded the stock of Anheuser-Busch InBev to a hold status — meaning that investors should neither buy or sell shares of the company. Laboy said that the backlash to the Mulvaney branding partnership is a sign that there are “deeper problems than ABI admits,” according to a note that was first...

This chilling story is enough to make your stomach turn as Ryan Montgomery shares the details of how he became involved and uncovered a website that led to the discovery of its owner, Nathan Larson, a former congressional candidate. These individuals, who have perpetrated terrible and horrific crimes that will affect their victims for the rest of their lives, have thus far escaped justice. However, Ryan and his partner are actively pursuing them.

The Biden administration has brought back a Trump-era immigration rule the day before Title 42 is scheduled to sunset and encourage a wave of illegal immigration into the U.S. The rule, finalized and published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, disqualifies migrants from applying for asylum in the U.S. if they neglected to first apply for asylum in other countries they traveled through, such as Mexico. Hundreds of asylum officers were trained in how to enforce the rule on Tuesday ahead of Title 42’s expiration, according to CBS News. The new rule, a reversal of President Joe Biden’s campaign promises,...

It has been nine years since gunfire erupted in the early morning at a Killeen apartment building, leading to the death of a beloved local police detective and nine years in jail with no trial for a Killeen resident. Killeen resident Marvin Louis Guy, 58, was booked into jail on May 10, 2014. He is still being held in lieu of bonds totaling $4 million on four capital felony charges — including $1.5 million on the most serious charge of capital murder of a peace officer. Guy is accused of shooting KPD Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, and other officers, during...

Eddy May's electric Mercedes-Benz suffered flat tyre. Vehicle did not come with spare. Many have questioned why EVs do not have spare tyres . ... An Australian driver has revealed one of the struggles of owning an electric car - the fact they don't come with spare tyres. Eddy May and his wife, from Adelaide, were driving their electric Mercedes-Benz EQC-400, worth around $128,000, along a freeway on Sunday morning when something sliced open one of the wheels. ... The majority of EVs do not come with spares due to extra weight they add to the vehicle and amount of...

A Colorado mom named Erin Lee is suing the school her daughter goes to claiming that she was one of a group of sixth-graders that was lured into a deceptive after-school “art” club that, in actuality, promoted gender and sexuality issues. “When she got there, she very quickly learned it was actually a gender and sexuality awareness club,” Lee revealed to Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Tuesday. “The art teacher had invited in an outside presenter into the classroom that day, and this woman did absolutely unthinkable things with the kids,” the mother claimed. During the presentation, the woman...

Joe Biden’s family and associates created 20 companies while Biden was vice president, shell companies apparently designed to shuffle millions of dollars from foreign interests, including China, into Biden family pockets. So alleges the House Oversight Committee in a memorandum released Wednesday morning.What’s the saying? “Follow the money.” And so the committee has. They examined thousands of pages of bank documents and 170 “suspicious activity reports” from Treasury, buttressed by witness testimony and, of course, emails and texts on Hunter Biden’s laptop. (Verified, Comer was quick to point out at a Wednesday press conference, by The Washington Post.)The committee has...