A firefighter responding to a medical emergency was killed in a shooting at a Wisconsin bus station that left three others injured, officials said. The shooting happened after police and firefighters responded to a medical emergency in downtown Appleton.
Appleton officer Meghan Cash said there was no ongoing threat to the community, but she didn’t say if anyone was in custody. A procession was held overnight in Milwaukee as the firefighter’s body was brought to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Firefighters lined the street as emergency vehicles escorted the body. The flag-draped coffin was then brought into the medical examiner’s office. The firefighter was a 14-year veteran of the Appleton Fire Department.
Missouri’s Republican-led senate has now passed a bill to ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. senators approved the legislation 24-10 early Thursday. It needs at least one more vote of approval in the GOP led house before it can go to Republican Governor Mike Parson, who voiced support for it on Wednesday.
Missouri joins a movement of GOP-dominated state legislatures emboldened by the possibility that a more conservative Supreme Court could overturn its landmark ruling legalizing the procedure. Its senators voted only hours after Alabama’s governor signed the most stringent abortion ban in the nation on Wednesday, making performing an abortion a felony in nearly all cases.
A building that was being refurbished collapsed Thursday in downtown Shanghai. At least nine people are trapped while 11 have been pulled from the rubble. The city’s rescue service said 24 emergency vehicles and more than 150 personnel responded to the emergency.
By early afternoon, 11 out of the 20 people buried in the collapse had been pulled from the rubble. Their conditions were not immediately known.
The building is in the Changning district of China’s financial hub. China has suffered a spate of industrial accidents in recent months largely blamed on skirting of safety requirements amid a slowing economy.
Kyla Krohn can be reached at kroh9889@stthomas.edu.