JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nearly 60,000 more Missouri workers filed initial unemployment claims last week amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. That’s according to data released Thursday by the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. The state said 59,271 workers filed claims. The number is still high but is down sharply from the 101,722…
Liberty, MO (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson has granted clemency to a Columbia man who was facing a return to prison after an earlier parole on a drug charge was overturned. Parson on Wednesday commuted the sentence for Dimetrious Woods, who was convicted in 2007 on a drug charge. He was released in 2017 after…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Two rural Missouri counties are seeing huge spikes in coronavirus cases, including many connected to meatpacking plants. Saline County on Wednesday reported 96 cases of the coronavirus. Moniteau County reported 55 cases, citing 29 as confirmed and 26 as “probable.” Neither county has reported a death. Statewide, the number of confirmed…
Jefferson City, MO (AP) — Protesters have gathered outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City to demand that the state reopen to business after weeks of government-imposed social distancing aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The protest on Tuesday is among several across the country over the past week. In Jefferson City, many…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general is suing the Chinese government over the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the lawsuit Tuesday. It alleges that Chinese officials are to blame for the pandemic. Schmitt says the Chinese government lied about the dangers of the virus and didn’t do enough to slow its…
Los Angeles, CA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Los Angeles Rams to send a lawsuit regarding their relocation from St. Louis into arbitration. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in St. Louis late next year, or it could be settled out of court. The city and…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Protesters upset with stay-at-home orders issued to slow the spread of the coronavirus are planning events in Missouri this week. A protest is planned at noon Monday in Kansas City, followed by a similar event Tuesday in Jefferson City. Protests against the orders are spreading across the country, with supporters…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) A man is in custody in connection with Saturday’s double shooting near the Tower Grove South neighborhood that left one person dead and another injured. According to St. Louis Police, 29-year-old Brandon Langston has been arrested on 1st-degree murder and multiple other charges. It all unfolded Saturday in the 4400 block…
LADUE, Mo. (AP) — Soccer executive Bob Hermann has died. He launched the trophy given annually to the top college soccer players in the United States. In 1967, he helped found the National Professional Soccer League, which then merged with the United Soccer Association to form the North American Soccer League. Led by the Cosmos…
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in Missouri jumped by more than 400 Friday, the biggest one-day increase since the first case was reported last month. Sixteen more people have died. Data from Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering shows 418 newly confirmed cases, bringing the total…