Top Stories: A man accused of animal abuse made a court appearance Tuesday in St. Francois County in southeast Missouri. Jason Hampton faces charges after allegedly hitting a yellow lab with a hammer and then leaving the animal for dead in February. And a mother was arrested and charged with child endangerment yesterday after Town and Country Police near St. Louis said she left her one-year-old daughter in a hot car while she went shopping. Police released the girl to her father and said she is expected to be okay.
