BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A surge in coronavirus cases is proving worrisome in the popular southwestern Missouri tourist destination of Branson. The Kansas City Star reports that confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, have more than doubled in less than two weeks in Taney County, which is where Branson is located.…
Washington, D.C. (AP) President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold federal money if schools don’t reopen in the fall. He says the guidelines his own federal health officials have created for schools to reopen are impractical and expensive. Even as he continues to put pressure on state and local officials to fully reopen, New York…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The man who was shot and killed by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy after he carjacked and ran down a 67-year-old man in north county is identified. In a release, county police say 27-year-old William Burgess fled on foot after hitting the man, who was walking on a sidewalk with a 10-year-old…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The amount of water being released into the Missouri River from a dam on the Nebraska-South Dakota border is being decreased because less water is expected to flow into the river this year. That means the risk of a repeat of last year’s massive flooding along the river has been reduced.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. general for the Middle East says the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was worrisome, but he is not convinced that any bounties resulted in U.S. military deaths. Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central command said in a…
New York, NY (AP) The National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association have reached a tentative agreement to return to play this season and extend their collective bargaining agreement by four years. Training camps would open July 13 and games would resume Aug. 1 if approved by the league’s board of governors and players’ executive…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) The 4-year-old boy who was hit in the head by a stray bullet over the holiday weekend remains in quote “grave condition” at area hospital. City police stated Monday that Michael Goodlow III had succumbed to his injuries, but then retracted that statement later Monday night. The incident occurred Saturday in…
St. Louis, MO (AP)Â Authorities say an off-duty deputy shot and killed a suspected carjacker after he struck a 67-year-old man as he walked on a suburban St. Louis sidewalk with his 10-year-old grandson. St. Louis County police spokeswoman Tracy Panus said the suspect used a weapon to steal the truck from the 67-year-old at…
LONDON (AP) — More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air. That change could alter some of the current measures being taken to stop the pandemic. In a letter published this week, scientists wrote that studies have shown “beyond any…
Washington D.C. (AP) — To win Florida and other pivotal swing states in November, Joe Biden is not only hoping to run up the score against President Donald Trump with Latino voters, but also push the community’s turnout to levels far higher than when Hillary Clinton was defeated in 2016. A key to doing that…