(AP) Manufacturers are reconfiguring operations to help produce desperately needed medical gear. Wine and beer sellers are doing the same to ensure a steady supply of booze to the shelter-in-place crowd. The global outbreak of the coronavirus is changing the way businesses operate. Ford said Tuesday that it’s working with GE and 3M on masks.…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis Community College now has it’s first confirmed case of COVID-19. In an email obtained by KTRS News sent at 10:47 P.M. Monday, the school says that a student who attends the Florissant Valley Campus, notified the the college yesterday. The last time the student was on the campus was…
Washington D.C. (AP) — Top congressional and White House officials negotiating the nearly $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package say they expect to reach a deal sometime Tuesday. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer say they spoke by phone with President Donald Trump as they met late into the night at the…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) St. Louis City is seeing its first coronavirus -related death. St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and Dr. Fredrick Echols, director of the St. Louis Health Department made that announcement during an afternoon news conference on Monday at City Hall. The victim was a woman in her thirties, who was just diagnosed…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis-area residents have been ordered to stay indoors to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, which has sickened nearly 130 people in Missouri. The Monday shelter-in-place order in St. Louis took effect a day before such orders were set to be enforced in the Kansas City and St. Joseph…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Anheuser-Busch is getting involved in the effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The company announced on Saturday that it will be producing hand sanitizer, then distributing the bottles across the country. In a Twitter post, the company said, “We have a long history of supporting our communities and employees – this…
Washington D.C. (AP) — The latest economic rescue package being negotiated in Washington is now nearly $2 trillion. But the Senate has yet to agree on the parameters of the package, voting against advancing the measure to a full vote. Talks wrapped up late at night on Capitol Hill with the goal a new vote…
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has ordered the state’s residents to remain in their homes except for essential needs, joining similar efforts in California and New York to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Pritzker’s order announced Friday will still allow the state’s 12.6 million residents to seek essentials including groceries and medicine. The order will…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is tapping stepped-up powers to marshal the private sector in the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this week he said he’d invoke the rarely used Defense Production Act as needed to get needed medical supplies on the front lines of the outbreak. Now he says he’s put that “in gear.” He…
Columbia, S.C. (AP) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned from the board of Boeing Co.. According to a letter obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, Haley cut her ties to the company because of her opposition to an industry bailout that is being offered in response to the new coronavirus outbreak. Earlier…