WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is trying to overcome diminishing demand for COVID-19 shots by offering businesses a tax incentive to give employees paid leave to get vaccinated. The move comes as the United States is set to meet President Joe Biden’s goal of administering 200 million coronavirus doses in his first 100 days…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House has ousted a lawmaker accused of sexually and physically abusing his children years ago. The GOP-led House on Wednesday voted almost unanimously to kick out Republican Rick Roeber. His now-adult children testified to House investigators earlier this year that he sexually abused two of them at the ages…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, the explosive case that triggered worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. The jury deliberated about 10 hours over two days in a city on edge…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tishaura Jones has called systemic racism the biggest obstacle to progress in St. Louis, and the city’s new mayor used her inauguration speech on Tuesday to pledge to fight back against all types of discrimination. Jones was sworn in during a coronavirus-mandated socially distanced ceremony at City Hall that included fewer…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s health director has resigned. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced the departure of Department of Health and Senior Services Director Dr. Randall Williams. Williams was appointed to the job in 2017 by Parson’s predecessor, former GOP Gov. Eric Greitens. Williams helped lead the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he is “praying the verdict is the right verdict” in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin and that he believes the case to be “overwhelming.” Biden told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he was only weighing in on the trial into the…
APE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A 45-year-old man is charged with a hate crime after a fire destroyed a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint in Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau officials charged Christopher Pritchard on Monday. A probable cause statement says church members had reported having trouble with Pritchard, who they said had…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter has taken flight. The little 4-pound helicopter named Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. Ground controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California were jubilant as…
The Patrol reports the boy was returned safely by his father. The Amber Alert has been canceled.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is welcoming Japan’s prime minister to the White House in his first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader. Biden’s choice of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as his first guest Friday underlines a theme of Biden’s administration — strengthening U.S. alliances as a first step to dealing with global challenges,…