Stories from Sunday, July 14, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man identified as the shooter in the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump was a 20-year-old from a Pittsburg suburb not far from the campaign rally where one attendee was killed. Authorities say Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, opened fire at the rally before being killed by Secret Service on Saturday, days before Trump was to accept the Republican nomination for a third time...

Global leaders expressed concern Sunday over an apparent assassination attempt targeting former U.S. President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania that left one attendee dead and critically injured two others. Trump's campaign said the presumptive Republican nominee was doing "fine" after being whisked off the stage though the shooting pierced the upper part of his right ear...

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — On the heels of an apparent attempt to kill him, former President Donald Trump called Sunday for unity and resilience as shocked leaders across the political divide recoiled from the shooting that left him injured but "fine" and the gunman and a rally-goer dead...

BERTRAND, Mo. — Ruth Lynn Richardson Eggers Estes, 94, died July 13, 2024, at her son's home in Sikeston. Visitation will be from noon until service time at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 16 at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. Burial will follow in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery near Charleston...

DOGWOOD, Mo. — Phillip Daniel Blackman, 71, died July 12, 2024, at his home near the Dogwood Community. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until service time at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 18 at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.