NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are scuffling Thursday amid worries about worsening coronavirus counts across the country. The S&P 500 was 1.1% lower in afternoon trading, a rare stumble in what’s been a banner month for the benchmark index. Many analysts along Wall Street are still optimistic the market can climb higher and set…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has announced new guidance aimed at keeping more kids, teachers and staff in school, even those who have been exposed to the coronavirus. Currently, anyone in a K-12 setting who is directly exposed must quarantine for 14 days. The new guidance does not require quarantining if both…
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state on Wednesday announced an audit of presidential election results that he said would be done with a full hand tally of ballots because the margin is so tight. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at a news conference Wednesday that his office wants the process to begin by…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a man who claimed he was headed to Missouri to kill former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill was arrested in Utah. According to court documents, George William Stahl of Cottonwood Heights, Utah, made several threats against McCaskill and told authorities that he was going to kill her. Utah Highway…
No. 12 Georgia at Missouri is the fourth Southeastern Conference game scheduled for Saturday to be postponed because of COVID-19. The conference announced the game could not be played because of positive COVID-19 tests and individuals in quarantine after contact tracing within the Missouri program. Earlier this week, No. 24 Auburn at Mississippi State; No.…
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is vowing to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offering prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Wednesday’s pledge came a day after the Vatican released its detailed report into the decadeslong church cover-up of McCarrick’s sexual misconduct. Francis concluded his weekly general audience by recalling that…
(KTRS) – A suspected truck thief is recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after leading Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies and Missouri Highway Patrol troopers on a pursuit in Franklin County Tuesday. Around 8:35 a.m., the Franklin County Sheriff’s office received word via OnStar that a vehicle stolen from a Jefferson County business was in Villa…
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis is investigating the shooting death of a man and a woman in Ferguson, in the same area where Michael Brown was fatally shot six years ago. Ferguson police were called around 11:45 p.m. Monday to the Canfield Green Apartments. Both victims were found…
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest surge in U.S. coronavirus cases appears to be much larger than the two previous ones, and it is all but certain to get worse — a lot worse. Newly confirmed infections in the U.S. are running at all-time highs of well over 100,000 per day, pushing the running total…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri appeals court ordered a new trial for a St. Louis man serving a 25-year sentence in a 2016 shooting death. The court reversed the second-degree murder conviction of Christopher Endicott, ruling a judge in his trial should have instructed jurors that they could consider whether Endicott acted in self-defense.…