St. Louis County expects the first shipments of coronavirus vaccine to arrive by the end of this week. County Executive Sam Page says hospital workers will be vaccinated first, later this month. Page expects it to take several months for the vaccine to be distributed widely. A total of 150,000 doses of the vaccine are expected…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has dived back into Capitol Hill’s confusing COVID-19 negotiations, offering a $916 billion package to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that adds a $600 direct payment to most Americans. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the offer to Pelosi late Tuesday afternoon, he said in a statement. He offered few details,…
Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average. That mirrors the frightening peak set last April. And cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record. The crisis is all but certain to get worse from the fallout of Americans traveling…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials have certified this year’s election results showing that President Donald Trump easily won the state’s 10 electoral votes over Democrat Joseph Biden. The State Board of Canvassers said Tuesday that Trump won 56% of the vote to Biden’s 41%, with the remainder going to lesser-known candidates. The board…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man is dead after being shot during a carjacking at a St. Louis gas station. Police say the crime happened just after 2 a.m. Monday at a Phillips 66 station in north St. Louis. Officers found the victim, who was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The victim’s name…
CHICAGO (AP) — As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons. The Bureau of Prisons has in recent weeks announced plans for five executions starting Thursday. The flurry would conclude just days before the presidential inauguration of death penalty…
OLIVETTE, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man is charged first-degree murder after a woman was shot and killed when she was caught in crossfire on the interstate near St. Louis. Thirty-year-old Calvin Pittman, of Ferguson, was charged Friday in the death of 46-year-old Kristen Whitted in Bridgeton, who was shot Monday as she drove…
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is predicting the economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic will only get worse if Congress doesn’t act quickly to pass an aid bill. He also expressed concern that so far he’s seen “no detailed plan” from the Trump administration on how to distribute an approved coronavirus…
Child sex charges have been filed against 50-year old Robert Ross of St. Peters. St. Louis County Police say Ross worked as a St. Louis Public Schools security/safety officer from from 2003 to 2006. He’s been charged with first-degree statutory rape, four counts of first-degree statutory sodomy, and three counts of first-degree child molestation. Three…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is adjusting the scope of his agenda to meet the realities of governing under a divided Congress and the complications of legislating during a historic pandemic. His team and congressional Democrats are looking at ways they can wrap some climate change provisions into a coronavirus aid bill. They’re considering…