(AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner will seek a sixth term representing suburban St. Louis in Congress. Wagner announced her reelection bid on Tuesday in Missouri’s 2nd District, which covers mostly middle class and affluent parts of the St. Louis suburbs. Wagner’s name had been mentioned as a possible U.S. Senate candidate. Incumbent Missouri…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is looking to speed up consideration of a nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package. He promised on Monday that fellow Democrats would work with Republicans to put together a package of amendments for the Senate’s consideration. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act clocked in at some 2,700…
(AP) — Contact tracers are trying to determine if anyone picked up the coronavirus during a boisterous St. Louis County Council meeting where many people were maskless as they expressed their displeasure with a mask mandate. The effort comes after someone at the meeting tested positive for COVID-19. The delta variant of the coronavirus has…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge says state courts should handle a lawsuit to overturn St. Louis-area mask mandates. Judge Stephen Clark of the Eastern Missouri U.S. District Court on Sunday sent the case back to state court. Missouri’s Republican attorney general last week filed a lawsuit in state court over the new mask…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has advanced a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure plan with a bipartisan group of senators helping it clear one more hurdle on Friday. They are now bracing to see if support can hold during the next few days of debate and efforts to amend it. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Police Chief Mary Barton is retiring. Barton said in a resignation letter Friday that she will step down after a leave of absence scheduled to begin Sunday. Barton was hired in April 2020 but has been criticized for her handling of complaints about racial discrimination in the department.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump urged senior Justice Department officials to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt” in a December phone call. That’s according to handwritten notes from one of the participants in the conversation. The notes of the Dec. 27 call were released Friday by the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee. They underscore the…
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri hospital that had no people hospitalized with COVID-19 just two months ago is now dealing with an onslaught of patients. Among them is Daryl Barker, who was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination. He and several relatives got sick, and Barker ended up in an intensive care unit fighting…
BOSTON (AP) — The Biden administration will allow a nationwide ban on evictions to expire Saturday. The end of the moratorium comes as advocates and some lawmakers call for it to be extended in the face of rising coronavirus cases and the sluggish pace of distributing rental assistance. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have reached a deal with Democrats over major outstanding issues in a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. They say they are ready to vote to take up the bill, and an evening test vote is possible. The infrastructure measure is a key part of President Joe Biden’s agenda. The outcome will…