St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force reports the area had a sobering week in the effort to stop the spread of the Corona- virus. At his Friday press conference Task Force Head Dr. Alex Garza addressed admissions data from the region’s hospitals. New hospital admissions increased from 37* yesterday to…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Rising coronavirus cases in key presidential battleground states are the latest worry for election officials and voters a little more than two weeks before Election Day. The prospect of poll workers backing out at the last minute because they are infected, quarantined or scared of getting sick has local election officials…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the company was wrong to block weblinks to an unverified political story, a move that had prompted cries of censorship from the right. Dorsey tweeted Friday that “straight blocking of URLs was wrong” and the Twitter has updated its policy and enforcement to fix it. Dorsey was weighing in after…
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Josh Hawley is working on a book about one of the Missouri Republican’s ongoing targets. Simon & Schuster announced Friday that Hawley’s “The Tyranny of Big Tech” will be released June 21. Hawley has frequently criticized Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants for everything from alleged anti-conservative bias to…
Washington D.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden showed striking differences in temperament, views on racial justice and approaches to the pandemic that has reshaped the nation in dueling televised town halls. They squared off, in a way, Thursday night, their scuttled second debate replaced by the separate events. Trump was defensive…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) 2 men are in custody in connection with Monday’s homicide in the city’s St. Louis Place neighborhood. St. Louis Police say that 43-year-old Dexter Wiggley and 42-year-old Cortez Eastwood were arrested Thursday and charged with 1st degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm. The incident occurred in…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The number of people hospitalized for the coronavirus in Missouri has reached another record, and the seven-day average positivity rate was more than triple the benchmark suggested by the World Health Organization. The state health department’s COVID-19 dashboard showed other alarming numbers Thursday: 1,875 new confirmed cases and 22 deaths. The…
(AP) Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S. Many places are being forced to reimpose tough restrictions they had eased just a few months ago. Well after Europe seemed to…
Beijing, China (AP) — A hospital president and the director of the health commission in the northern Chinese city of Qingdao have been fired after China’s latest coronavirus outbreak. A brief notice on the Qingdao city government’s official microblog says the the two people were placed under further investigation. No other details were given. Authorities…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Police need your help finding the man responsible for shooting in north city. It unfolded Wednesday in the city’s Mark Twain Neighborhood, specifically, the 5100 block of North Euclid. That’s where officers responded to a call and found a 25-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.…