O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 300 workers at a northwestern Missouri pork processing plant have now tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest of several meat plants around the country to see huge spikes in confirmed cases of the virus. Missouri’s health department oversaw testing this week of more than 2,300 asymptomatic workers at the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is denying a former staffer’s allegation of sexual assault, saying it “never, never happened.” Biden’s first public comment on the allegation came during an interview Friday on MSNBC’s ”Morning Joe.” Former staffer Tara Reade says Biden assaulted her during the 1990s and that she filed a complaint in 1993. Biden…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature is taking up a new redistricting plan once again. A House committee on Thursday advanced the proposal. The measure would ask voters yet again to change state redistricting rules. Missourians in 2018 voted to make “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” top criteria in drawing state House and Senate…
Washington D.C. (AP) — What was the source of the coronavirus? President Donald Trump is speculating that China could have unleashed the coronavirus on the world due to some kind of horrible “mistake.” And his intelligence agencies say they are still examining a notion put forward by the president and aides that the pandemic may…
NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s economic pain was on full display as Europe and the United States released more figures showing just how devastating the impact has been from coronavirus lockdown measures. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits soared past 30 million, worsening a crisis unmatched since the 1930s and heightening pressure…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Advocates for Missouri state workers are pushing for higher pay and more protective equipment. Union leaders, Democratic state lawmakers and other advocates for worker rights on Thursday called on Gov. Mike Parson to do more to protect employees from the coronavirus. One union leader said public workers shouldn’t have to die…
Cape Girardeau, MO (KTRS) The man accused of setting fire to an Islamic Center in Southeast Missouri is set to appear in federal court Thursday. In a release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says 42-year-old Nicholas Proffitt is facing federal arson charges for maliciously damaging the Islamic Center of Cape Girardeau. According to the criminal complaint,…
Brooklyn, NY (AP) — Police were called to a Brooklyn funeral home Wednesday after it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in rented trucks. The scene was the latest example of funeral homes struggling with thousands of deaths caused by the coronavirus. A law enforcement official says investigators who responded to a 911…
(AP) U.S. government officials say an experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major study. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir is the first treatment to pass such a strict test against the virus, which has killed more than 218,000 people since it emerged late last year. The study was led by the U.S.…
(KTRS) The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office on Wednesday charged St. Louis County Police Officer Preston Marquart with involuntary second degree manslaughter related to the death of 12-year old Akeelah Jackson. According to a statement, “The charges follow an exhaustive and detailed investigation in collaboration with our partners in the 6th District and Traffic Divisions…