From the Wire

EUREKA, Mo. (AP) -- A large sinkhole is draining a lake at Lone Elk Park in St. Louis County.

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) -- A juvenile black bear has been tranquilized and will be taken out into the country after spending days roaming the suburbs of St. Louis.

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- After she was picked as commencement speaker for fellow 2020 graduates at Otterbein University, Katie Exline considered focusing her speech on perspective. By the time she finally got to deliver it in front of them this month, they already had some of that.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Three homes in Kansas City, Missouri, are facing repairs after a massive tree collapsed onto them.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A commemorative coin that was designed to honor the Kansas City Police Department's vice unit is being widely criticized.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A man was found fatally wounded in the St. Louis area Sunday morning.

WELDON SPRING, Mo. (AP) -- A hiker was accidentally shot by a turkey hunter in the St. Louis area on Saturday, authorities said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says a Missouri law that prevents cities from enacting their own gun control measures hamstrings his efforts to address the city's shootings and killings.

KINLOCH, Mo. (AP) -- Two men are dead after a shooting in the St. Louis County town of Kinloch.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has signed a bill prohibiting race-based discrimination based on hairstyles.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating after a man was found shot to death outside an apartment.

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) -- When the Kansas City Police Department recently announced that about 900 officers had begun wearing body cameras, it was trumpeted as a move toward greater transparency and accountability, particularly in controversial arrests or shootings.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Columbia police are investigating after vandals damaged an historical marker commemorating the 1923 lynching of James T. Scott.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- After more than three decades in law enforcement, a Douglas County Sheriff's Department captain is moving out of the squad car and, eventually, into the pulpit.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- New St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones has vetoed property tax breaks for two developments, calling them too generous.

ROGERSVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A 21-year-old woman is dead after a crash in southwestern Missouri, and authorities are searching for another driver who fled after allegedly causing the accident.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Two brothers are dead after a shooting at an apartment complex in north St. Louis County.

LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) -- An artificial intelligence company based in the Kansas City suburb of Leawood, Kansas, plans to add nearly 500 new high-paying jobs to the region over the next five years.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- A 38-year-old man is dead after his mini bike collided with a car in suburban St. Louis.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A police veteran who spent nearly three decades with the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is crossing the state line to lead the department in Kansas City, Kansas.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- As India's government scrambles for supplies of oxygen and other emergency aid to control the raging coronavirus outbreak, donors around the world have come to the rescue -- including a Hindu temple in the United Arab Emirates.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The U.N. Security Council held emergency consultations Monday on escalating violence in east Jerusalem and was considering a proposed statement calling on Israel to cease evictions and calling for "restraint" and respect for "the historic status quo at the holy sites."

BANGKOK (AP) -- Three senior journalists working for a news agency in Myanmar who fled after the military government ordered its operations to stop have been arrested by police in northern Thailand, their editor said Monday.

A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Monday.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Hamas militants fired a large barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday, including one that set off air raid sirens as far away as Jerusalem, after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police at a flashpoint religious site in the contested holy city.

PARIS (AP) -- The French government gave a medal Monday to a math teacher-volunteer firefighter who used CPR to save the life of a jogger in a Paris park, a gesture that has drawn national attention to the importance of first aid training.

HOUSTON (AP) -- Authorities are searching for a Texas man whose tiger was found wandering around a residential area in Houston on Sunday night.

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ATLANTA (AP) -- A flight from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., made an unscheduled landing after being struck by birds, a Delta Air Lines spokesman said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Major US pipeline company says it hopes to be largely back online by end of the week following cyberattack.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A cyberattack on a major U.S. pipeline that led to a partial shutdown is raising concerns that supplies of gasoline, jet fuel and diesel could be disrupted in parts of the East Coast if the disruption continues.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lafayette Square, the park across from the White House, reopened Monday to the public nearly a year after federal authorities fenced off the area at the height of nationwide protests over policing following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. (AP) -- A team of Illinois researchers is using dogs to track down a threatened species of turtle.

ROME (AP) -- Several hundred more migrants reached a tiny Italian island before dawn on Monday, swelling to past 2,100 the number of arrivals in around 24 hours and fueling calls from across the political spectrum for the Italian government to strengthen its migration policies.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Gaza health officials: 9 killed in explosion in northern Gaza Strip, cause of blast unknown.

PARIS (AP) -- A French activist for Black rights went on trial in Paris on Monday for defacing a statue of a historical figure from France's colonial, slave-trading past, calling the protest a political act to denounce deep-seated racism.

PRAGUE -- The Czech Republic is further easing coronavirus restrictions, opening bars and restaurants for outdoor dining amid falling numbers of coronavirus infections.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- One person was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at a crowded party in Los Angeles, authorities said.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Air raid sirens sound in Jerusalem, signaling possible rocket attack.

DETROIT (AP) -- Police Chief James Craig on Monday plans to announce his retirement as head of the city's police department and possibly discuss his future plans, which could include a run for political office.