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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A quirk in the mail delivery system that forced some rural Missouri residents living along the Arkansas and Iowa borders to have mailing addresses in their neighboring states has been fixed.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) -- The president of Southeast Missouri State University is apologizing after he was captured on video drinking from a beer bong at a tailgate party.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities say a fleeing motorist has been injured in a shootout with law enforcement in southwest Missouri.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The Nebraska State College System trustees intend this coming Sunday and Monday to interview the four finalists to be the next system chancellor.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A married couple has pleaded guilty in a scheme in which southwest Missouri jail inmates tried to unlawfully land big tax refunds.

DETROIT (AP) -- A 20-year-old food service worker at Comerica Park in Detroit has been charged after a video was posted online that appeared to show him spitting on a pizza intended for customers during a Major League Baseball game.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri man who admitted to participating in the rape and killing of two sisters who were pushed from an abandoned St. Louis bridge could be released as soon as 2020.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- FBI crime statistics place Baltimore's homicide rate above that of any other U.S. city with a population over 500,000.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Prosecutors have dropped charges -- for now -- against three St. Louis police officers accused of falsifying time sheets and getting paid for overtime they didn't perform.

WELLSTON, Mo. (AP) -- A St. Louis area high school is closed until Thursday after vandals sprayed fire extinguishers, damaged classrooms and shattered glass.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is defending his lawsuit against the operators of a duck boat that sank in July, killing 17 people.

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities have identified the men killed in an eastern Missouri plane crash as an American Airlines pilot and his son.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis police are investigating a rash of six killings over a 24-hour period, and the city's police chief said Monday that illegal drugs are likely at the root of most of the violence.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The U.S. attorney's office says a former central Missouri tax collector has pleaded guilty to embezzling about $300,000 in taxpayer funds.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A former Kansas priest still holds medical licenses in Kansas and Missouri despite being defrocked this year after the Archdiocese of Kansas City determined that he abused three minors decades ago.

MARIONVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A southwestern Missouri man remains hospitalized in serious condition after being injured in a weekend shootout with police.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A former Roman Catholic priest who sexually abused a 9-year-old boy at a Maine church in the 1990s is going back to prison after pleading guilty on Monday.

DETROIT (AP) -- A 20-year-old food service worker at Comerica Park in Detroit has been arrested after a video was posted online that appeared to show him spitting on a pizza intended for customers during a Major League Baseball game.

DETROIT (AP) -- The Latest on a food service worker at a Detroit ballpark videotaped allegedly spitting on a pizza (all times local):

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Police have ruled that a woman found dead inside a vehicle after a police chase died of injuries suffered in the head-on collision that ended the pursuit.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Latest on the United Nations General Assembly (all times local):

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a New Hampshire city for allegedly detaining a Jordanian man on immigration violations after he helped authorities nab a suspect in another case.

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Masked gunmen shot dead a human rights activist and mother of four outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- A Hungarian opposition party says it will report to prosecutors suspected corruption relating to luxury trips taken by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to soccer matches abroad paid for by a businessman whose companies have benefited from numerous state contracts.

Victim impact statement submitted in writing by Andrea Constand, the former Temple University employee whom Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting in 2004, and released by prosecutors at Cosby's sentencing Tuesday in Norristown, Pennsylvania:

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota woman convicted of killing her pregnant neighbor by cutting the baby from her womb testified Tuesday that her boyfriend had pressured her to "produce a baby" after figuring out she had lied about being pregnant.

BATESVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- The Latest on a trial (all times local):

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities say an Alabama man arrested in the suspected drowning death of his infant son told investigators he placed the child in a tub of running water and forgot about the baby while playing a video game.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog has found some physicians hired to examine immigrants have criminal convictions. One had a history of sexual misconduct and another was sanctioned for allowing her team to dilute vaccines.

LONDON (AP) -- A story of starvation in Stalin's Soviet Union, a biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder and a look at how factories changed the world are among finalists for a $75,000 history book prize.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A former puppet specialist with the Broadway musical "The Lion King" is accused of printing a 3-D gun in the theater's prop room.

LONDON (AP) -- Britain's main opposition Labour Party announced Tuesday it will reject Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed divorce deal with the European Union when it comes to a vote in Parliament and might even support a new Brexit referendum.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The founder of a Texas company that sells blueprints for making untraceable 3-D printed guns has resigned from the firm after being arrested on charges of having sex with a 16-year-old girl, the company announced Tuesday.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- A Baltimore police officer convicted of hitting a man in the face during a 2016 traffic stop has avoided prison time.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- The Latest on the trial of William Hoehn, who is charged with conspiracy in the killing of a pregnant woman whose baby was cut from her womb (all times local):

BRUSSELS (AP) -- European Union lawmakers say they are canceling 70 million euros ($82.4 million) in funding meant to help Turkey join the EU due to what they see as Ankara's failure to improve rule of law and human rights.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- President Donald Trump has singled out Iran for particularly harsh criticism in his annual address to world leaders at the U.N.

MOSCOW (AP) -- A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot said Tuesday he's recovering after spending two weeks in intensive care after a suspected poisoning.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve is all but certain Wednesday to raise its key short-term interest rate for the third time this year and to signal that another hike is likely before the year ends.

MIAMI (AP) -- A Florida man faced up to 27 years in prison for a fatal car crash, but instead he's been sentenced to just 10 days -- with one day to be served on each of the next 10 anniversaries of the crash.