CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis County police dispatcher is no longer with the department, less than two weeks after using a racial slur over a police radio. A police spokeswoman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she could not disclose if the dispatcher was fired or resigned. The dispatcher, whose name has not…
President Joe Biden has revoked a recent Trump administration report that aimed to promote “patriotic education” in schools but that historians rejected as political propaganda. An executive order issued Wednesday disbanded Donald Trump’s presidential 1776 Commission and withdrew a report it released Monday. Trump created the group in September to rally support from white voters.…
President Joe Biden’s inauguration represents a new high point for Democrats, who have assumed control of Congress and expelled Donald Trump from the White House. But for Republicans, this moment marks a painful shift to a new era of diminished power, deep uncertainty and dangerous intraparty divisions that some believe threaten the very survival of…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri plans mass vaccination sites by the end of the month in an effort to get more protection against COVID-19 to more people. Gov. Mike Parson said Wednesday that he will activate the National Guard to help with new vaccination sites in each of the nine Missouri State Highway Patrol regions.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s only abortion provider says it is performing fewer abortions because state restrictions are prompting many women to drive to a nearby clinic in Illinois. Planned Parenthood says only seven abortions were provided at its St. Louis clinic in November and none in December. That compares with nine and five for…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has sworn the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed.” He takes the helm of a deeply divided nation and inherit a confluence of crises arguably greater than any faced by his predecessors. But there were comforting signs of tradition…
St. Louis County Tuesday received delivery of 3,900 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine from the state of Missouri. The county Department of Public Health will continue administering the vaccine on Wednesday morning to people who have registered, and the process will continue daily at the Health Department’s John C. Murphy Health Center in Berkeley.…
BERLIN (AP) — A new survey suggests that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will assume office amid a surge in optimism among major European allies, and at home, about the future of trans-Atlantic relations and American foreign policy in general. Four years of President Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to foreign policy have frayed relations with…
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – The State of Missouri is partnering with the Missouri Primary Care Association and MAKO Medical to continue hosting free COVID-19 testing events throughout the state. Community testing events are scheduled in the following counties over the next two weeks: Audrain, Boone, Buchanan, Clay, Cole, Greene, Harrison, Howell, Iron, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Madison,…
About 172,000 residents have pre-registered with the St. Louis County Health Department for the Covid-19 vaccination but County Executive Sam Page says that a few have been dishonest on the form; misrepresenting their age and occupation, claiming to be frontline health care workers when they are not in order to get the vaccine sooner. Page…