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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Police say two people were killed and nine others were injured in several weekend shootings in the St. Louis area.

DONIPHAN, Mo. (AP) -- A small hospital in southeast Missouri that has been closed since October will not reopen.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A non-profit group is hoping to save historic homes that were damaged when a powerful tornado swept through Missouri's capital city last month.

OAK GROVE, Mo. (AP) -- Police in Oak Grove are asking for the public's help to solve a fatal hit-and-run from a decade ago.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A bill dubbed the "Jedi Disposal Act" could soon make Missouri the first state to allow outdoor cremations.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish has canceled her upcoming Atlanta performance because of Georgia's new restrictive abortion law.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- After a half-century of disappointment, even Mother Nature didn't dare spoil the celebration of St. Louis' first-ever Stanley Cup championship.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Latest on the Stanley Cup celebration in St. Louis (all times local):

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- An eastern Missouri woman accused of attacking her 5-year-old son with a knife has been found not mentally competent to stand trial.

RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) -- Police say a woman has been shot and killed in the Kansas City, Missouri, suburb of Raytown.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A second teenager charged in the shooting death of a retired St. Louis police sergeant will be tried as an adult.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- A jury has convicted a 19-year-old Independence man of second-degree murder and a weapons count in the January 2018 shooting death of a teen.

STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) -- Many residents of a rural southwestern Missouri county are critical of a state law that restricts how much local authorities can regulate industrial feedlots and say they feel betrayed by their local representatives who backed the legislation.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Lincoln University curators have extended President Jerald Jones Woolfolk's contract for another three years.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A fourth man who participated in a deadly hammer beating in St. Louis has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in the death of a Bosnian immigrant.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The gunfire that has long haunted St. Louis streets has taken an even more disturbing turn, with a rash of shootings involving children that has left the city's police chief angered and frustrated by the lack of cooperation of witnesses.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- As the federal government prepares to launch an ambitious initiative to end the HIV epidemic, the director of the Centers for Disease Control on Friday applauded an Alabama HIV clinic's commitment to providing health services to rural communities.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis County authorities say a man died after he was shot y a police officer in a 28-hour standoff that began when officers tried to arrest a drug suspect.

BURNS HARBOR, Ind. (AP) -- A crash involving two semitrailers scattered cocoa powder and lithium batteries across an interstate in Indiana, closing part of the freeway.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri bar that served as a set location for the movie "Gone Girl" will reopen later this month.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Authorities in Philadelphia say one person has been killed and at least seven others have been shot during a graduation party.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Early results in Guatemala's presidential election point to a businesswoman in the lead to oversee a nation where tens of thousands have fled poverty and gang violence this year to seek a new life in the United States.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Police Department is gathering evidence and video footage in an administrative investigation into an off-duty officer who shot and killed a man authorities say attacked him inside a Southern California Costco Wholesale warehouse store.

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistani police say an activist known for his online criticism of the country's military and politicians has been killed by unknown assailants in a wooded area of the capital, Islamabad.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout that hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and were tallying the damage from the unforeseen disaster.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon is on the precipice of becoming the second state after California to adopt a cap-and-trade program, a market-based approach to lowering the greenhouse gas emissions behind global warming.

HONG KONG (AP) -- The Latest on protests in Hong Kong against an extradition bill (all times local):

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) -- The 36-year-old Cuban mechanic's eyes glazed over as he recalled his time at the Siglo XXI holding facility: 50 people sleeping in 9-by-12-foot pens, feces overflowing the latrines, food and water always scarce.

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Early results in Guatemala's presidential election point to a businesswoman in the lead in a nation where tens of thousands have fled poverty and gang violence to seek a new life in the United States.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Authorities say a man has died after a shooting involving a police officer in South Bend, the Indiana city where Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is mayor.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- From her perch in front of a TV in Florida, Amy Bockerstette had no doubt.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care is set to begin Monday following months of turmoil in one of the Navy's most prominent war crimes cases.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- An encrypted phone message sent by a missing Belgian tourist could hold a clue to the 18-year-old's disappearance from an Australian coastal town, his father said on Monday.

Today in History

HONG KONG (AP) -- Joshua Wong, a leading figure in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement demonstrations, was released from prison on Monday and vowed to soon join the latest round of protests.

HONG KONG (AP) -- Protesters in Hong Kong left the streets, averting possible clashes Monday after haggling for hours with police by moving to areas near the city's government headquarters.

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- In front of Gary Woodland was a 263-yard shot to the scariest green on any par 5 at Pebble Beach, especially with a U.S. Open on the line. Behind him by one shot on the leaderboard was Brooks Koepka, the most dangerous figure in major championship golf these days.

TOKYO (AP) -- Asian shares were mostly higher Monday amid a wait-and-see attitude about the direction of interest rates and the trade dispute between the U.S. and China.

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire law enforcement officials have charged a woman with murder in connection with the shooting of her mother .

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Police Department is gathering evidence and video footage in an administrative investigation into an off-duty officer who shot and killed a man authorities say attacked him inside a Southern California Costco Wholesale warehouse store.