CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell has reversed an order directing his trial attorneys to move nearly 250 criminal cases away from a circuit judge over an email thread criticizing Bell’s decision in a fatal police shooting. Last month, Bell instructed staff to steer cases away from Circuit Judge Dean…
WASHINGTON (AP) — With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden has offered a head-on acknowledgement of the country’s once-unimaginable loss — half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden addressed what he called a “grim, heartbreaking milestone” directly and publicly, speaking from a lectern in the White House Cross…
(AP) — The U.S. stands at the brink of 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, America’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, calls the looming milestone horrible and historic. The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, was about 498,000 on Sunday. That’s roughly the population…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a driver who appeared to be street racing crashed into a parked car early Sunday in St. Louis, killing the man inside it. St. Louis Police said William Moore, 55, died after an Acura TSX crashed into his Buick that was parked on the side of Goodfellow Boulevard. Police…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dru Smith hopes all of Missouri’s players-only meetings lead to this. Smith said the 20th-ranked Tigers met without coaches heading into Saturday’s game against South Carolina simply to make sure they were all of one mind heading down the season’s final stretch. Missouri certainly looked in sync, with Smith scoring 17…
BELLEVILLE (AP) — A man awaiting trial in the 2005 triple homicide in Belleville has died of COVID-19. St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. says that 55-year-old Samuel L. Johnson died of complications of pneumonia and COVID-19. Johnson had been in the county jail before his death at Memorial Hospital in Belleville. Johnson has…
DALLAS (AP) — Higher temperatures are spreading across the southern United States, bringing some relief to a region weary of winter. The region faces a challenging clean-up and expensive repairs from days of extreme cold and widespread power outages. In hard-hit Texas, where millions were warned to boil tap water before drinking it, the warm-up…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis NAACP has filed federal complaints over the lack of coronavirus vaccinations for prisoners. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the NAACP chapter filed civil rights complaints against the state Thursday. No Missouri prisoners have been vaccinated against the virus, despite their high risk for complications and the group’s high…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many Texans finally have electricity back after a deadly blast of winter this week overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold for days. But the crisis is far from over, with 7 million in the state ordered to boil their water before consuming it. And in Jackson,…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s health director says the state has no plans to move teachers higher on the list for COVID-19 vaccinations but will continue focusing on getting shots to older people and those with serious illnesses. Dr. Randall Williams spokes Thursday during Gov. Mike Parson’s weekly media briefing. Several states, including neighboring Kansas…