ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MO – Approximately one week before each election, the St. Charles County Election Authority mails Notice of Election postcards to registered voters. Often referred to by residents as “pink and white cards” or “voter reminder cards,” the postcard provides the voter’s polling place, election date and time, and other important information. Changes are…
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is moving toward stricter export controls for COVID-19 vaccines to boost its flagging vaccine drive. The EU’s executive said Wednesday on the eve of a summit of the 27 leaders that it has a plan to guarantee that more vaccines produced in the bloc are available for its own…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt is running for U.S. Senate. Schmitt announced Wednesday that he’s making a bid for retiring U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt’s seat. Schmitt faces a primary against former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL officer who rose quickly to become governor before scandal forced him…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — George Segal, the banjo player turned actor who was nominated for an Oscar for 1966′s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” and starred in the ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs,” has died. Segal’s wife Sonia Segal said in a statement that he died Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California, of complications from bypass surgery.…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A massive cargo ship has turned sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping. Traffic on the narrow waterway dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula stopped Tuesday after the MV Ever Given got stuck. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the…
ST. LOUIS (KTRS) — St. Lous Zoo president and C-E-O Dr. Jeffrey Bonner announced Wednesday he is retiring at the end of the year after 19 years on the job. The St. Louis Zoological Park Subdistrict Commission has begun the process of an international search to identify Dr. Bonner’s successor in the coming months. Since…
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has agreed to the early release of some low- to medium-risk inmates as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit over the coronavirus. A lawyer involved in the case says about 1,000 inmates scheduled for release in the next nine months could soon be set free. The lawsuit was filed…