O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — In a year when many states are prohibiting in-person graduation ceremonies due to the coronavirus, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is not only allowing them, but will speak at one. The Republican governor has a special bond with the indoor ceremony Thursday night at Sparta High School in southwestern Missouri: His granddaughter…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Signs of renewed activity are surfacing across the country as states gradually reopen economies and some businesses call a portion of their laid-off staffers back to work. Yet with millions more Americans seeking unemployment aid last week, the U.S. job market remains as bleak as it’s been in decades. Nearly 39 million…
O’Fallon, MO (AP) — St. Louis County’s prosecutor has launched an investigation after video showed white police officers forcefully arresting a 68-year-old black woman and her 43-year-old son inside a Sam’s Club store. The announcement Wednesday by prosecutor Wesley Bell came two days after Marvia Gray sued the city of Des Peres, Missouri, and four…
Washington D.C. (AP) — The U.S. Senate is doing almost anything but deliberate the coronavirus. It’s as though the crisis has split the world’s greatest deliberative body into two. On one side is a Senate clamoring for a quick response to the crisis. On the other is the wait-and-see Senate hitting pause on swift action…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis-area kids and families bored at home during the corona-virus shutdown will start to see new options open up next month, when the St. Louis Zoo, summer camps and swimming pools all are expected to reopen. St. Louis County Executive Sam Page announced Wednesday that summer camps will likely be…
NEW YORK (AP) — As countries around the world loosen their corona-virus restrictions, it’s back to business, but not business as usual. In fact, it is becoming all too clear that without a vaccine against the scourge, the disruptions could be long-lasting and the economy won’t simply bounce right back. In Connecticut, restaurants are reopening…
Bonne Terre, MO (AP) A Missouri man is put to death for fatally stabbing an 81-year-old woman nearly three decades ago, in the first U.S. execution since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Walter Barton died via lethal injection yesterday. Barton had long maintained he was innocent of killing Gladys Kuehler, and his case was tied…
New Delhi, India (AP) — A powerful cyclone is dumping rain on coastal India and Bangladesh as more than 2 million people are being moved to shelters before the storm hits in the afternoon. Cyclone Amphan slowed slightly as it reached cooler waters near the coast. But it could cause extensive damage from winds and…
EDENVILLE, Mich. (AP) — People living along two mid-Michigan lakes and parts of a river have been evacuated following several days of heavy rain that produced flooding and put pressure on dams in the area. Two Midland-area schools were opened Tuesday morning for evacuees and more than 50 roads have been closed. Volunteers at the…
(KTRS) St. Louis County Police arrested a 48-year-old man Friday in connection with a January shooting that left one woman dead and another seriously injured. Prosecutors have charged Leron Harris with first-degree murder, robbery, unlawful possession of a firearm, and four counts of armed criminal action. Officers responded to a call at an apartment complex…