NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will require all municipal workers to get coronavirus vaccines by mid-September or face weekly COVID-19 testing. The move announced Monday by Mayor Bill de Blasio follows last week’s announcement mandating vaccinations or weekly testing for public health care workers as the city battles a rise in COVID-19 cases…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Hundreds of inmates facing federal charges have been transferred from St. Louis to out-of-state jails, leaving relatives desperately trying to reconnect. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports officials have been reducing the inmate population at the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, also known as the workhouse. Before the workhouse was emptied in…
(AP) — St. Louis city and county officials say they’ll require masks in some places starting Monday, citing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases spurred by the delta variant. Officials said in a news release on Friday that masks will be mandatory in indoor public places and on public transportation for everyone age 5 or…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Leaders of a St. Louis suburb have approved a motion to hold a hearing on whether to remove a city council member from office amid a fallout related to the police chief’s resignation last month. The O’Fallon City Council voted 6-3 Thursday to hold an impeachment hearing for Councilwoman Katie Gatewood,…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Friday disqualified a private judge being used by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in their divorce case, handing Jolie a major victory. The 2nd District Court of Appeal agreed with Jolie that Judge John Ouderkirk didn’t sufficiently disclose business relationships with Pitt’s attorneys. The decision means…
A new poll shows that most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots. Most of them also doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do. Those findings underscore the challenges facing public health officials as soaring infections in some states again threaten…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri could get as much as $500 million to help victims of the opioid epidemic as part of a tentative settlement with the three biggest U.S. drug distribution companies and the drugmaker Johnson & Johnson. Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Thursday announced Missouri’s share of the $26 billion deal…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has vacated a lower court’s decision in the state’s Medicaid expansion case, agreeing that the voter-approved plan to offer Medicaid to more people should stand. The unanimous decision on Thursday sends the case back to Cole County Circuit Court. The state Supreme Court ruled that the 2020…
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is pushing landlords around the country to give its drivers the ability to unlock apartment building front doors whenever they need to leave packages in the lobby instead of the street. The service, called Amazon Key for Business, allows delivery workers to make their rounds faster since they don’t have…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Wildfires in the U.S. West are creating hazy skies as far away as New York as the massive infernos spew smoke and ash into the air. Strong winds blew smoke east from California, Oregon, Montana and other states. The smoke on the U.S. East Coast was reminiscent of last fall when…